A Writer Prepares By: Lawrence Block

Author: Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block is most famous for his novels about hard-boiled private eye Matt Scudder and comic burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, his long-running column in Writer’s Digest, and the popular “Write for Your Life” classes of the 1980s. Here, the 82-year-old author looks back at his career in the 1950s and 1960s as an employee of a semi-legitimate literary agency and a writer of lurid paperback fiction.