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Frank Morrison Spillane (March 9, 1918 – July 17, 2006), better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American crime novelist, whose stories often feature his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally. Spillane was also an occasional actor, once even playing Hammer himself.
Born in Brooklyn, New York City, and raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Spillane was the only child of his Irish bartender father, John Joseph Spillane, and his Scottish mother, Catherine Anne. Spillane attended Erasmus Hall High School, graduating in 1935. He started writing while in high school, briefly attended Fort Hays State College in Kansas and worked a variety of jobs, including summers as a lifeguard at Breezy Point, Queens, and a period as a trampoline artist for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
During World War II Spillane enlisted in the Army Air Corps, becoming a fighter pilot and a flight instructor. While flying over Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, he said, "That is where I want to live." Later, he would use his celebrity status to publicize the Grand Strand on TV, but when it became a popular resort area and traffic became a problem, Spillane said, "I shouldn't have told people about it."
Photo of Lt. Frank M. Spillane from Greenwood Army Air Field yearbook for 1943.
He was an active Jehovah's Witness. Mickey and Mary Ann Spillane had four children (Caroline, Kathy, Michael, Ward), and their marriage ended in 1962. In November 1965, he married his second wife, nightclub singer Sherri Malinou. After that marriage ended in divorce (and a lawsuit) in 1983, Spillane shared his waterfront house in Murrells Inlet with his third wife, Jane Rogers Johnson, whom he married in October 1983, and her two daughters (Jennifer and Margaret Johnson).
In the 1960s, Spillane became a friend of the novelist Ayn Rand. Despite their apparent differences, Rand admired Spillane's literary style, and Spillane became, as he described it, a "fan" of Rand's work.
In 1989, Hurricane Hugo ravaged his Murrells Inlet house to such a degree it had to be almost entirely reconstructed. A television interview showed Spillane standing in the ruins of his house.
He received an Edgar Allan Poe Grand Master Award in 1995. Spillane's novels went out of print, but in 2001, the New American Library began reissuing them.
Spillane died July 17, 2006 at his home in Murrells Inlet, of pancreatic carcinoma. After his death, his friend and literary executor, Max Allan Collins, began the task of editing and completing Spillane's unpublished typescripts, beginning with a Mike Hammer novel, The Goliath Bone (2008).
In July 2011, the town of Murrells Inlet named U.S 17 Business the "Mickey Spillane Waterfront 17 Highway." The proposal first passed the Georgetown County Council in 2006 while Spillane was still alive, but the South Carolina General Assembly rejected the plan then.
He is survived by his wife, Jane Spillane.
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Mike Hammer Series books 1-5,6,9,12-19,21,25,26
Mickey Spillane - I, The Jury (read by Richard Wulf)
Mickey Spillane - My Gun Is Quick (read by William Dufris)
Mickey Spillane - Vengeance Is Mine (read by Stacy Keach)
Mickey Spillane - One Lonely Night (read by William Dufris)
Mickey Spillane - The Big Kill (read by William Dufris)
Mickey Spillane - Kiss Me, Deadly (read by Stacy Keach)
Mickey Spillane - The Twisted Thing (read by Jeff Harding)
Mickey Spillane - The Killing Man (read by Stacy Keach)
Mickey Spillane - Black Alley (read by Richard Ferrone)
Mickey Spillane - The Goliath Bone (read by Stacy Keach)
Mickey Spillane - The Big Bang (read by Stacy Keach)
Mickey Spillane - Kiss Her Goodbye (read by Stacy Keach)
Mickey Spillane - Lady, Go Die! (read by Stacy Keach)
Mickey Spillane - Complex 90 (read by Stacy Keach)
Mickey Spillane - King Of The Weeds (read by Stacy Keach)
Mickey Spillane - Kill Me, Darling (read by Stacy Keach)
Mickey Spillane - Murder Never Knocks (read by Stacy Keach)
Mickey Spillane - Murder, My Love (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Mickey Spillane - Masquerade For Murder (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Mickey Spillane - Dig Two Graves (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Caleb York Series books 2-6
Mickey Spillane - The Big Showdown (read by Corey M. Snow)
Mickey Spillane - The Bloody Spur (read by Corey M. Snow)
Mickey Spillane - Last Stage To Hell Junction (read by Jack Garrett)
Mickey Spillane - Hot Lead, Cold Justice (read by Jack Garrett)
Mickey Spillane - Shoot-Out At Sugar Creek (read by Jack Garrett)
Non-Series
Mickey Spillane - The Last Stand (read by Dan John Miller)
Mickey Spillane - It's In The Book (read by Scott Brick)
Mickey Spillane - Dead Street (read by Richard Ferrone)
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