Former Los Angeles police officer turned best- selling author Joseph Wambaugh, known for books such as "The Onion Field" and ...
The prolific author, who initially planned to be an English teacher, had been with the Los Angeles Police Department 11 years ...
Joseph Wambaugh, the former LAPD officer who brought realism to the "Police Story" TV series and books like "The Onion Field, ...
He wrote 'The Onion Field,' 'The New Centurions' and 'The Blue Knight' and created the realistic anthology series 'Police ...
In novels like “The Glitter Dome” and nonfiction works like “The Onion Field,” he took a harsh, unglamorous look at the ...
In 1971, eleven years after joining the LAPD, Wambaugh saw his first novel, The New Centurions, published by Little, Brown ...
(Photo by Chris Stone/Times of San Diego) Former Los Angeles police officer turned best- selling author Joseph Wambaugh, known for books such as “The Onion Field” and “The New Centurions ...
LOS ANGELES — Joseph Wambaugh, who wrote the gripping, true-crime bestseller “The Onion Field” and numerous gritty but darkly humorous novels about day-to-day police work drawn from his own ...
Joseph Wambaugh, LA Cop Who Wrote 'The Onion Field' and Other Bestsellers, Dies at 88 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Joseph Wambaugh, who wrote the gripping, true-crime bestseller "The Onion Field" and ...