| LC control no. | n 85031227 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3552.A47 |
| Personal name heading | Ballinger, Bill S. (Bill Sanborn), 1912-1980 |
| Variant(s) | Ballinger, William Sanborn, 1912- Ballinger, William Sanborn, 1912-1980 |
| See also | For works of this person entered under other names, search also under: Freyer, Frederic, 1912-1980 Sanborn, B. X., 1912-1980 Freyer, Frederic, 1912-1980 Sanborn, B. X., 1912-1980 |
| Birth date | 19120313 |
| Death date | 19800323 |
| Place of birth | Oskaloosa (Iowa) |
| Place of death | Tarzana (Los Angeles, Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Writing Detective and mystery stories Motion picture authorship Television authorship |
| Profession or occupation | Authors Radio writers Television writers Screenwriters |
| Found in | LCCN 71-17264: Ballinger, W.S. The lopsided man, 1969 (hdg.: Ballinger, William Sanborn, 1912-; usage: Bill S. Ballinger) LC data base, 6-11-85 (hdg.: Ballinger, William Sanborn, 1912-; usage: Bill S. Ballinger) NUCMC data from Boston Univ., Dept. of Special Coll. for William S. Ballinger collection, 1969-1974 (William S. Ballinger; 1912-1980) Strangler, 2005 : title frame (written by Bill S. Ballinger) Wikipedia, December 8, 2014: (Bill S. Ballinger; born William Sanborn Ballinger on 13 March 1912 in Oskaloosa, Iowa, died 23 March 1980 Tarzana, California; American author and screenwriter. Educated at the University of Wisconsin; associate professor of writing at the California State University Northridge, Los Angeles, California. Began career working in radio and advertising in New York City in the early 1940s; after moving to Los Angeles, wrote novels, including Barr Breed series and Joaquin Hawks series; used also the names B.S. Sanborn and Frederic Fryer; a frequent writer for American television; also wrote screenplays for Burt Topper's The strangler (1963) and Operation CIA (1965).) Billsballinger.com, December 8, 2014: (Bill S(anborn) Ballinger, 1912-1980, American thriller writer; published The black, black hearse (1955) as Frederic Freyer; published The doom-maker, a.k.a. The blonde on borrowed time, 1959, 1960, as B. X. Sanborn; received Edgar Allan Poe Award from Mystery Writers of America for his TV work, 1960) |
| Associated language | eng |
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