The Largehearted Boy David Gutowski identifies what makes this best-selling writer underrated: "Seemingly every critical review of a Pelecanos novel praises him for being one of the best writers in the crime genre, instead of the truth, that he is one of the best American novelists writing today." Besides novels, Pelecanos has also written multiple episodes for the finally no-longer-underrated HBO procedural, The Wire.
More about George Pelecanos
+ Pelecanos' official site
+ Robert Birnbaum vs. Pelecanos: first at Identity Theory, then at The Morning News
+ Pelecanos' IMDb entry
+ Another interview with Pelecanos on the business of writing
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