A candid interview with bestsellling novelist Lawrence Block is featured at Mysterious Writers. http://mysteriouspeople.blogspot.com/ The MWA Grandmaster has won a number of awards. His characters include private investigator Mathew Scudder, burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, insomniac Evan Turner and assassin Keller, which have made him one of the most versatile crime novelists on the planet. He's also published four how-to writing books as well as short fiction and articles in American Heritage, Redbook and The New York Times.