Hillary Baldwin Waugh, a pioneering American mystery novelist, was born in 1920 in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1989, Waugh was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. Waugh graduated in 1942 from Yale, majoring in art with a music minor. During his senior year at Yale, Waugh enlisted in the United States Navy Air Corps and, after graduation, received his aviator's wings. He served in Panama for two years, flying various types of aircraft. Wikipedia
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A president of the Mystery Writers of America. One of the pioneers of the "police procedural" subgenre of detective fiction and creator of the characters Sheridan Wesley, Fred Fellows (chief of police), David Halliday, Frank Sessions (homicide detective), www.imdb.com/name/nm0915288/