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Gilbert "Gil" Brewer (1922–1983) was an American novel and short story author.[1] He was born November 20, 1922, in Canandaigua, New York.[2]

Gil Brewer
BornGilbert Brewer
November 20, 1922
Canandaigua, New York, United States
DiedJanuary 9, 1983(1983-01-09) (aged 60)
St. Petersburg, Florida, United States
OccupationAuthor
LanguageEnglish
GenreCrime

After leaving the army at the end of World War II, Brewer joined his family who had settled in St. Petersburg, Florida.[3] There he met Verlaine in 1947 and married her soon after. Brewer started by writing serious novels, but soon turned to pulp paperbacks after a sale to Gold Medal Books in 1950, and afterwards specialized in fast-paced crime novels with a dose of soft-core sexuality. At one point, he had five books on the stands simultaneously. His best-selling book was 13 French Street (1951), which sold over a million copies.[3]

Unwilling to promote himself, his career took a turn for the worse after a mental breakdown, and a long decline into alcoholism.[3] Brewer died on January 9, 1983.[3]


Works


This list does not include most of the many stories where Brewer was published under pseudonyms such as Al Conroy, Dee Laye, Connie Everett, Eric Fitzgerald, Morgana Hill, Jack Holland, Marc Mixer, Bailey Morgan, Luke Morgann [sic], Frank Sebastian, Alex Sexton, Anita Sultry, Viola Vixen, and more.[4][5][6][7]


Novels


—and three original TV tie-in novels—


Short story collections



References


  1. Morgan, Chris (August 4, 2013). "The Brutalist: A Gil Brewer Retrospective". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved November 4, 2015.
  2. State of Florida. Florida Death Index, 1877–1998. Florida: Florida Department of Health, Office of Vital Records, 1998.
  3. David Rachels (2018). Gil Brewer's Sexual Obsession, PunkNoirMagazine.com, accessed October 20, 2021
  4. "Gil Brewer".
  5. "GIL BREWER, by Bill Pronzini and Lynn Munroe".
  6. "RARA-AVIS Archives: RARA-AVIS: Gil Brewer – new pseudonyms".
  7. "Gil Brewer papers, – Archives West".






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