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Charles Einstein
1926–2007
A sharp, versatile writer who moved easily between newspaper work, crime fiction, and baseball books, he brought a reporter’s eye to everything he wrote. He is especially remembered for the novel The Bloody Spur and for lively, authoritative writing about the game he loved.
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Short Snorter
by Charles Einstein
About the author
Born in Boston on August 2, 1926, he built a career as a newspaperman, sportswriter, and author. His work ranged across fiction, journalism, and screenwriting, giving him a reputation for clean, fast, readable prose.
His best-known novel, The Bloody Spur (1953), was adapted into Fritz Lang’s film While the City Sleeps in 1956. Alongside fiction, he became well known for baseball writing, including books on Willie Mays and wider histories and anthologies of the sport.
He died on March 7, 2007, in Michigan City, Indiana. He is also noted as part of an entertainment family: his father was comedian Harry Einstein, and his half-brothers were Albert Brooks and Bob Einstein.