Charles Willeford

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William Ray Willeford III (January 2, 1919 – March 27, 1988) was an American writer.

Willeford, a writer of fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary studies, is best known for his collection of books starring hardboiled detective Hoke Moseley.

Willeford continued to publish from the 1940s, but with the debut of its first Hoke Moseley book, Miami Blues (1984), one of the decade's most popular works of crime fiction, it has gained a new following.

Three of Willeford's books, Cockfighter, Miami Blues, and The Woman Chaser have all been film adaptations: Cockfighter, Miami Blues, and The Woman Chaser, are among Willeford's novels.

Early life

On January 2, 1919, Charles Ray Willeford III was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. Willeford and his mother relocated to Los Angeles after his father died of tuberculosis in 1922. Mattie Lowey, a boy who died in 1927, and also from TB, lived on Figueroa Street near Exposition Park until 1932. He boarded a freight train in Los Angeles, assumed a false name, and — passing as a seventeen-year-old— traveled by rail along the Mexican border for a year.

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Career

He joined the California National Guard in March 1935; a few months later, he enlisted in the regular United States Army. He spent two years in the Philippines as a fire truck pilot, a gas truck operator, and briefly as a cook. He was disdrafted from the Army at the end of 1938, but he re-enlisted in March 1939, serving the United States Cavalry stationed in Monterey, California, near the Presidio of Monterey, California. He learned to ride and care for horses in the Cavalry, and spent several months learning the art of horseshoeing. He served as a "horseholder" in a machine gun unit and obtained a marksman certificate.

Willeford married Lara Bell Fridley in 1942 before being stationed in Fort Benning, Georgia, for infantry school. He was assigned to Company C, the 11th Tank Battalion of the 10th Armored Division, and sent to Europe as a tank commander. He served in the Battle of the Bulge and was awarded the Silver Star for his bravery, the Purple Heart with a single oak leaf cluster, and the Luxembourg War Cross. He attended Biarritz American University from 1970 to 1980, then moved back to the United States after V-E Day.

Willeford returned to service in 1945 for a three-year term. From 1947 to 1949, he served in Kyushu, Japan, as a member of the 24th Infantry Division. He worked at WLKH, the army müssen radio station, and was promoted to master sergeant.

Prosecutors Laughter, his first book of poetry, was published in 1948. He and his partner, Lara, married in May 1949, just over a year ago. He left the army in July of the same year, leaving a General Delivery address in Dallas, Texas. In Lima, Peru, he enrolled in the Universitarias de Belles Artes, researching art and art history in the graduate program. He was suspended from the university after officials learned that he had neither an undergraduate degree nor a high school diploma. He served in New York City for a month at the end of 1949 before re-enlisting in the air force.

Județeane Willeford was stationed at Hamilton Air Force Base in California from April 1952 to April 1952. He married Mary Jo Norton in July of this year and spent a while in Birmingham, Alabama. High Priest of California, Willeford's first book, was published in 1953. It's a double volume with another writer's book that has sold 55,000 copies, or about a third of its print run. He re-enlisted in January 1954 when residing in West Palm Beach; this time at Palm Beach Air Force Base. He was reassigned to Harmon Air Force Base in Newfoundland in 1955. Willeford's father was forced to leave active service in November 1956. By this time, two more books of his poetry had been published.

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