Bill S. Ballinger

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Bill S. Ballinger (born William Sanborn Ballinger in Oskaloosa, Iowa, died on March 13th, 1980, Tarzana, California) was an American writer and screenwriter.

He was educated at the University of Wisconsin and was an associate professor of writing at the California State University Northridge, Los Angeles, California.

Early life

He was born in Oskalloosa, Iowa, on March 13, 1912. He obtained his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, and he earned his degree there. She obtained an LL.D. in 1934. In 1940, the Philippines' Northern College referred to them.

Later life

Ballinger died in Tarzana, California, on March 23, 1980.

Ballinger, a popular writer on American television, had 150 teleplays to his name. There were seven teleplays for Alfred Hitchcock Presents (one of which, "The Day of the Bullet," based on a short story by Stanley Ellin, received an Edgar for Best Half-Hour Teleplay in 1961), two episodes of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, and the episode "The Mice" for The Outer Limits included seven teleplays.

Ballinger wrote screenplays for Burt Topper's The Strangler (1963) and Operation CIA (1965), a Burt Reynolds spy film set in Vietnam but shot in Thailand.

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Career

Ballinger, a pioneer in radio and television, developed 81 radio scripts and created The Dinah Shore Show, The Breakfast Club, and Lowell Thomas broadcasts. Ballinger went from New York to Los Angeles and began writing full time.

Primarily under his own name, but occasionally using pen names B.X. Ballinger, Sanborn and Frederic Freyer, Jr., wrote nearly 30 books and twenty-five short stories. His mysteries have been published in more than ten countries and translated into more than thirteen languages in the United States. The Body in the Bed, a hardboiled private-detective book, was his debut in 1948, and the sequel The Body Beautiful came the following year.

He rose to international prominence as a pioneer of dual narrative storytelling, combining first and third person narrations in tandem that result in an unexpected conclusion. Portrait in Smoke, his first work, was granted a Les Grands Maîtres Du Roman Policier Award in 1950, and Wicked as they Come was filmed in 1956. The Tooth and the Nail, the internationally bestselling Second Book, which was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Mystery book in 1958, The Wife of the Black Man, but Not I, Said the Vixen, brought him further success. Barr Breed, a Chicago private investigator, and Native American Central Intelligence Agency Agent Joaquin Hawke were two of Ballinger's two main fictional characters in his books.

He served as an associate professor of writing at the California State University Northridge, Los Angeles, California, from 1977 to 1979.

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