Biography

Prior to working for President Richard Nixon as part of the White House "plumbers" unit--organized to track down the source of leaks of documents that the White House did not want to become known--Watergate operative E. Howard Hunt worked for the CIA. He conducted break-ins at the Watergate complex at Nixon's orders in the name of "national security" (supposedly they were looking for evidence that Cuban leader Fidel Castro was secretly contributing funds to the Democratic party). After the scandal broke and the investigations of the incident were complete, Hunt was imprisoned for his illegal activities in the operation.

He was born in Hamburg, New York, the son of a lawyer and a classically trained pianist who played church organ. He died of pneumonia at the North Shore Medical Center in Miami FL, on Tuesday January 23, 2007.
- IMDb mini biography by: Ryan Curtis

Wrote to Time Magazine in 1975, denying he was in Dallas on November 22, 1963.

Became friends with William F. Buckley while serving as Buckley's CIA superior when the two were stationed in Mexico City. Buckley even became godfather to three of Hunt's children. The two friends later became estranged following Hunt's participation in the Watergate burglary.

Is portrayed by Ed Harris in Nixon (1995).

Published nearly 50 spy novels and detective novels during his life, beginning in the early 1940s and ending in 2000 when he retired from writing.

As a novelist, Hunt was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1946 (beating out Gore Vidal and Truman Capote that year). Hunt used the award money to move to Mexico and write his novel "Stranger in Town.".