Joseph Wambaugh Quotes
I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.
Citations
Wambaugh, Joseph. Interview by Brian Lamb. Booknotes, C-SPAN, 30 June 2002.
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See Robert Burton {596290} for an earlier view with which Jefferson was probably familiar.
Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh, Jr. is a best-selling American writer known for his fictional and nonfictional accounts of police work in the United States. Several of his early novels were set in Los Angeles, California, and its surroundings, and featured Los Angeles police officers as protagonists. He has been nominated for four Edgar Awards (winning three), and was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America.