Biography

Noel Behn was born on January 6, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Homicide: Life on the Street (1993), The Kremlin Letter (1970) and The Brink's Job (1978). He was married to Jo Ann LeCompte. He died on July 27, 1998 in New York City, New York, USA.

Novelist, screenwriter, stage producer and raconteur. Best known for his novel "The Kremlin Letter", which drew on his experiences working for U.S. Army Counterintelligence. During the 1950s and '60s he was the producing director for the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York. He also accounted for one-quarter of a distinguished intellectual foursome inhabiting the same 57th Street building (the others were Paddy Chayevsky, Bob Fosse and playwright Herb Gardner), forming an "unofficial club" and collaborating on each other's projects.

[on why he insisted that most so-called spy novels are really detective novels] In a detective novel, the hero solves a crime; in a spy novel, the hero commits one.