Author
8 July 1911 – 15 October 1988
The son of a scientist, John Dudley Ball was born in Schenectady, New York, and grew up in Milwaukee. He attended Carroll College in Wisconsin. He subsequently worked as a science staff writer on Fortune, a music critic and feature writer for the Brooklyn Eagle, a daily columnist on the New York World-Telegram & Sun, a broadcaster for a Washington radio station, and a Director of Public Relations for the Institute of Aerospace Sciences. His *In the Heat of the Night* was awarded a Mystery Writers of America "Edgar" for the Best First Mystery Novel of the Year, and since had been followed by *The Cool Cottontail*, also featuring his African-American detective, Virgil Tibbs. Mr. Ball also authored a number of notable young adult books.
Bibliography
30 books
1975
Saul Schwartz, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ellery Queen, Jacques Futrelle, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, William Brittain, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Stuart Palmer, James Yaffe, John Ball, Rex Stout, Hugh Pentecost, Bret Harte, Schwartz, Saul.
1985
Bill Pronzini, Martin H. Greenberg, Manly Wade Wellman, Eric Ambler, Raoul Whitfield, James Yaffe, H. R. F. Keating, Georges Simenon, Robert Somerlott, Ryerson Johnson, Janwillem van de Wetering, John Ball, Edward D. Hoch, Hayford Peirce, Tony Hillerman, Josh Pachter, Marcia Muller, Evan Hunter
