Spillane, Mickey

Country/Region:: USA
Born:: March 9, 1918
Dead:: July 17, 2006
Genres:: Miscellaneous prose, Crime literature, Children's literature

The presentation was last updated March 29, 2022

The American author Frank Morrison Spillane was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an Irish Catholic father and Scottish Presbyterian mother. He was christened twice; Michael was his Catholic baptismal name. At school he was known as Morrison Spillane, and as an adult he took the name Mickey, which was his father’s nickname for him.

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The article written by: Johan Wopenka. Published: April 26, 2016

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