Mickey Spillane didn’t give a good goddamn what the critics thought about his work. He became one of the best-selling authors in the history of the printed word because the only thing he cared ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. – Mickey ... three times, Spillane was the father of four children. Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning ...

Jane Spillane said they will be invited to her home later. "Just the sort of thing where everybody gets out there and talks about the funny stories and laughs about Mickey," she said. "We will all ...

It’s easy prose to mock. The fact is, heartless youngsters such as myself probably read and saw Mickey Spillane parodies before reading the real thing. But he is a pro when it comes to pacing.

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Mickey Spillane was never adored by critics. He famously said that his own father called his work “crud.” For the mystery novelist, none of it mattered. “I don’t have fans,” he said in a ...

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – Mickey Spillane liked to say he was a writer, not an author. That was his way of describing his occupation – not as art, but as a skilled, blue-collar line of work.