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Curt Gentry


Born
in Lamar, Colorado, The United States
June 13, 1931

Died
July 10, 2014

Genre
Crime, Biography, Nonfiction


Curt Gentry was an American writer. He served in the Air Force during the Korean War, mostly as a writer on the Pacific Stars and Stripes newspaper in Tokyo.

He is best known for co-writing the book Helter Skelter with Vincent Bugliosi (1974), which detailed the Charles Manson murders. Frame-Up was a nominee for the 1968 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Fact Crime book.

Helter Skelter won a 1975 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Fact Crime book.

J.Edgar Hoover won the 1992 PEN Center West Literary Award for Non-Fiction.

Gentry lived in San Francisco, California. He was 83 at the time of his death.

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J. Edgar Hoover: The Man an...
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Last Days of the Late, Grea...
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The Madams of San Francisco
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