The writer, who died Feb. 28, graduated from Chaffey High and Chaffey College. A military stint in between made him take ...
Joseph Wambaugh, the former LAPD officer who brought realism to the "Police Story" TV series and books like "The Onion Field, ...
The author, who previously lived in Newport Beach, died in Rancho Mirage after having esophageal cancer, a friend said.
Unlike those on 'Dragnet' and other cop shows, Wambaugh's fictional officers were often compromised and deeply flawed ...
Before the release of Joseph Wambaugh’s first novel, “The New Centurions,” he received an unusual offer from the star of the ...
He wrote 'The Onion Field,' 'The New Centurions' and 'The Blue Knight' and created the realistic anthology series 'Police ...
A post made on Friday afternoon to Wambaugh's Facebook page confirmed his death and said "Heaven has gained a new choir boy, ...
In 1971, eleven years after joining the LAPD, Wambaugh saw his first novel, The New Centurions, published by Little, Brown ...
Joseph Wambaugh, who wrote the gripping ... author of the bestselling cop novels featuring LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, told The Associated Press in 2007. As popular as Wambaugh’s first two ...
Joseph Wambaugh, whose experience as an LAPD officer enabled him to bring a warts-and-all realism to his novels about policing and the movies and TV shows like “Police Story,” died Friday in ...