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- Birth nameBruce Alexander Cook
- Bruce Cook was born in 1932 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Bruce was a writer, known for Trumbo (2015). Bruce was married to Judith Aller and Catherine Coghlan. Bruce died on November 9, 2003 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- SpousesJudith Aller(1994 - November 9, 2003) (his death)Catherine Coghlan (divorced, 3 children)
- Pen name was "Bruce Alexander." He wrote historical novels about a blind 18th-century Englishman and also a 20th-century Mexican-American detective.
- Son-in-law of pianist Victor Aller.
- Served as a translator in the U.S. Army in Frankfurt, Germany, in the late 1950s.
- Cook's first book (of 23) was "The Beat Generation", published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1971. In 1977 he wrote a biography of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. It was made into a film in 2015. In 1973 he wrote a musical history "Listen to the Blues." In 1983 he authored "Brecht in Exile", about the German writer Bertold Brecht. In 1993 he wrote "The Town That Country Built: Welcome to Branson, Missouri".
- His first novel was Chicago-based Sex Life, in 1978.
He wrote four novels featuring Los Angeles detective Antonio "Chico" Cervantes: Mexican "Standoff" (1988), "Rough Cut" (1990), "Death as a Career Move" (1992), and "Sidewalk Hilton" (1994). He also wrote a series of 11 novels about the blind magistrate Sir John Fielding, the real-life founder of London's first police force: "Blind Justice" (1994) ,"Murder In Grub Street" (1996) , "Watery Grave" (1998) , " Person Or Persons Unknown" (1998) , "Jack, Knave & Fool" (1999) , "Death of a Colonial" (2000) , "The Color of Death (2001) , "Smuggler's Moon" (2002), "An Experiment in Treason" (2003), "The Price of Murder (2004) and "Rules of Engagement (2006)".
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