Award-winning mystery writer Julius Fast dies
(New York Times, Dec. 22, 2008, William Grimes)
Julius Fast, who won the first Edgar Award given by the Mystery Writers of America and went on to publish popular books on body language and human relationships, died Tuesday in Kingston, N.Y. He was 89.
His death was confirmed by his daughter Jennifer Fast Gelfand. He had suffered a stroke a year and a half ago.
Fast, the younger brother of the novelist Howard Fast, won instant acclaim as a mystery writer. “Watchful at Night,” his first novel, was written while he was still in the Army Medical Corps during World War II. The (more…)