Charles Willeford [SEP] cause of death
, the popularity of "Miami Blues" and its first two published sequels led to the largest financial windfall of the author's life: a $225,000 advance for the fourth Hoke Moseley book, "The Way We Die Now". Released in early 1988, it would be his last novel.
Charles Willeford died of a heart attack in Miami, Florida, on March 27, 1988, and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
Literary style.
Steve Erickson suggests that Willeford's crime novels are the "
Willeford's novels: "Cockfighter", "Miami Blues", and "The Woman Chaser".
Early life.
Charles Ray Willeford III was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, on January 2, 1919. Following the death of his father from tuberculosis in 1922, Willeford and his mother moved to the Los Angeles area. After his mother's death in 1927, also from TB, he lived with his grandmother Mattie Lowey on Figueroa Street near Exposition Park until 1932. At the age of thirteen, in