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About Joseph Hansen

Birth

1923

Death

2004

Biography

Joseph Hansen was an American crime writer and poet, best known for a series of novels featuring private eye Dave Brandstetter.

Joseph Hansen was born in Aberdeen, South Dakota, in 1923.

He is world-renowned for creating Dave Brandstetter, an openly homosexual private investigator.

His literary career began in 1952 with the publication of a poem in the prestigious magazine The New Yorker.

Throughout his life, he wrote nearly forty books spanning a wide variety of genres.

Before establishing himself as a novelist, he worked in bookstores and even sang with a folk music group on the radio.