Charles Willeford

Charles Willeford
Willeford in the 1980s
Born	January 2, 1919 Little Rock, Arkansas, US
Died	March 27, 1988 (aged 69) Miami, Florida, US
Resting place	Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, US
Occupations	Writer college professor magazine editor boxer actor horse trainer radio announcer soldier airman

Charles Ray Willeford III (January 2, 1919 – March 27, 1988) was an American writer. An author of fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism. Willeford wrote a series of novels featuring hardboiled detective Hoke Moseley.^[1] Willeford published steadily from the 1940s on, but vaulted to wider attention with the first Hoke Moseley book, Miami Blues (1984), which is considered one of its era's most influential works of crime fiction. Film adaptations have been made of four of Willeford's novels: Cockfighter, Miami Blues, The Woman Chaser, and The Burnt Orange Heresy.