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Books Success Turns Ex-Policeman Into Fulltime Writer
New York AP profile of Joseph Wambaugh, ex LAPD detective sergeant turned best selling author. He discusses leaving the force in 1974 after 14 years, missing police work, writing from breakfast to dinner, and how his early publishing setbacks led to The New Centurions and later works. He notes writing is hard work and that driving motives include comrades and personal ambition.
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