1985
Citation:
Author of 23 published novels, with the most recent Glitz, in the fourth month on the New York Times bestseller list, plus 13 screenplays and two television pilots, you have become a master of your craft and a shining example of what it is to make a dream come true. A graduate of the University of Detroit in 1950, you joined Campbell-Ewald Company as an advertising copywriter, pursuing your passion for fiction early each morning before work, while others still slept. Eleven years later you left the security of that position to devote more time to your writing. And now, after more than thirty years, the risk has yielded many rewards. Recently featured on the cover of Newsweek, you are deemed by many as the best crime fiction writer today. Your recognition is well earned: a tribute to talent and tenacity.
Award was presented at the President’s Cabinet Eighteenth Annual Awards Dinner, May 18, 1985.
Award was presented at the President’s Cabinet Eighteenth Annual Awards Dinner, May 18, 1985.