Robert Goldsborough | |
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| Born | Robert Gerald Goldsborough October 3, 1937 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer, journalist |
| Alma mater | York Community High School Medill School of Journalism |
| Genre | Detective fiction |
| Spouse |
Janet Elizabeth Moore
(m. 1966) |
| Website | |
| robertgoldsborough | |
Robert Gerald Goldsborough (born October 3, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American journalist and writer of mystery novels. He worked for 45 years for the Chicago Tribune and Advertising Age, but gained prominence as the author of a series of 17 authorized pastiches of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe detective stories, published from 1986 to 1994 and from 2012 to 2023. The first novel, Murder in E Minor (1986), received a Nero Award.
In 2005, Goldsborough published Three Strikes You're Dead, the first novel of a five book series of period mysteries featuring Chicago Tribune reporter Steve (Snap) Malek.