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Authors: David Black
His TV movie
Legacy of Lies,
a drama about three generations of Jewish gangsters and cops in Chicago, which starred Eli Wallach, won the Writers Foundation of America Gold Medal for Excellence in Writing. It also received an ACE Award for Martin Landau for Best Actor.
His feature
The Confession,
starring Alec Baldwin, Ben Kingsley, and Amy Irving, was praised in
New York
by John Leonard and in
The Hollywood Reporter
, among other places, and was described in
Metroland
as “an almost miraculous act of storytelling.”
He has published nine books and more than 150 articles in magazines, including
The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, Harper's,
and
Rolling Stone
. His novel
An Impossible Life
has been praised by, among others, Nobel Prizeâwinning author Czeslaw Milosz, Erica Jong, Bruce Jay Friedman, and Leslie Epstein, who called it the best writing about Jewish gangsters since Isaac Babel.
Contemporary Authors
describes Black as “a versatile, multimedia writer who has distinguished himself in both fiction and nonfiction.”
He has taught writing at Mt. Holyoke, NYU, Columbia, Yale, where he is a Fellow at Pierson College, and Harvard, where he is a scholar-in-residence at Kirkland House. He is a former board member of the Mystery Writers of America and a member of the Century Association, the Williams Club, the Columbia University Club, PEN, the Writers Guild, the Explorers Club, the Players, and the National Arts Club. You can sign up for email updates
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NOVELS
An Impossible Life
Peep Show
Minds
Like Father
NONFICTION
Medicine Man
Murder at the Met
The King of Fifth Avenue
Ekstasy
PLAYS
An Impossible Life
POETRY
Mirrors
FILMS
The Confession
Legacy of Lies
TV
Cop Shop
CSI: Miami
The Bedford Diaries
The Education of Max Bickford
Sidney Lumet's
100 Centre Street
The Cosby Mysteries
EZ Streets
Law & Order
The Nasty Boys
H.E.L.P.
Gideon Oliver
Miami Vice
Hill Street Blues
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Contents
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.
Geography has been rearranged in some cases: The Mycenae in this book is not the city in Onondaga County, but one in Columbia County, on the Hudson River.
THE EXTINCTION EVENT
Copyright © 2010 by David Black
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ISBN 978-0-7653-2261-6
First Edition: May 2010
eISBN: 9780765386342
First eBook Edition: May 2015