 Frank Morrison Spillane was an American author of crime novels. He was best known for his novels involving detective Mike Hammer.
Spillane was born in Brooklyn, New York City, on March 9, 1918, and grew up in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He was schooled at Erasmus Hall High School and graduated in 1935, then moved on Fort Hayes State College in Kansas for a short time.
He enlisted in the Army Air Corps as a fighter pilot and flight instructor during World War II.
He was married three times, the first two ending in divorce, and had four children with Mary Ann Spillane, his first wife.
Spillane began writing while still in school, but started his writing career as a comic book writer. In 1947, at the suggestion of Ray Gill, a fellow comic book writer, Spillane wrote a novel entitled I, the Jury, (the first appearance of detective Mike Hammer) which sold six and a half million copies in the US alone.
Following the success of this novel Spillane went on to write numerous others, many of them involving his signature character detective Mike Hammer.
Mickey Spillane died on 17 July 2006 of pancreatic carcinoma. His friend and literary executor, Max Allan Collins, began editing and completing Spillanes unpublished typescripts. [edit]
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