Arthur Maling

Arthur Gordon Maling (June 11, 1923 – October 24, 2013) was an American writer of crime and thriller novels. He graduated from Francis W. Parker School, Chicago in 1940; in 1944 he received a B.A. from Harvard University. In the Second World War Maling was an ensign in the U.S. Navy from 1944 to 1945. From 1945 to 1946 he was a reporter for ''The San Diego Journal''. After 1946, he worked as an executive manager for Maling Brothers, a retail shoe chain. Provided by Wikipedia