Authors: Max Allan Collins
Before the Dawn (29 page)
MAX ALLAN COLLINS has earned an unprecedented eleven Private Eye Writers of America “Shamus” nominations for his historical thrillers, winning twice for his Nathan Heller novels,
True Detective
(1983) and
Stolen Away
(1991).
A Mystery Writers of America “Edgar” nominee in both fiction and nonfiction categories, Collins has been hailed as “the Renaissance man of mystery fiction.” His credits include five suspense-novel series, film criticism, short fiction, songwriting, trading-card sets, and movie/TV tie-in novels, including
In the Line of Fire, Air Force One,
and the
New York Times
bestseller
Saving Private Ryan.
He scripted the internationally syndicated comic strip
Dick Tracy
from 1977 to 1993, is cocreator of the comic-book features
Ms. Tree, Wild Dog,
and
Mike Danger,
has written the
Batman
comic book and newspaper strip, and the miniseries
Johnny Dynamite: Underworld
. His graphic novel,
Road to Perdition,
has been made into a DreamWorks feature film starring Tom Hanks and Paul Newman, directed by Sam Mendes.
As an independent filmmaker in his native Iowa, he wrote and directed the suspense film
Mommy,
starring Patty McCormack, premiering on Lifetime in 1996, and a 1997 sequel,
Mommy's Day.
The recipient of a record five Iowa Motion Picture Awards for screenplays, he wrote
The Expert,
a 1995 HBO World Premiere; and wrote and directed the award-winning documentary
Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane
(1999) and the innovative
Real Time: Siege at Lucas Street Market
(2000).
Collins lives in Muscatine, Iowa, with his wife, writer Barbara Collins, and their teenage son, Nathan.
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