![]() I wouldn’t say I was a big fan of the show, probably average. ![]() ![]() I don’t know what I was more excited about, writing his life story, or having a beer with Eddie Haskell!īefore working on EDDIE: The life and times of America’s preeminent bad boy, would you say you were a big fan of Leave it to Beaver? I was surprised and delighted two months later when he contacted me and told me that he really enjoyed my book – especially since he rarely reads fiction – and that we should get together and have a beer and talk about me writing his life story. I wrote him a pitch letter, signed a copy of my novel One Eyed Jack, mailed it off to him, and promptly forgot about it. When I discovered that were no biographies written about him, I decided to pitch it to Mr. I wondered at that point if there was a biography written about Eddie Haskell, who was the greatest character of all from the show – in fact, I consider him to be the most iconic TV character of all time. Bank and saw that he had written a biography, Call me Lumpy. When I saw that it trended for 3 full days, I realized that there was still a lot of interest in the characters from the show. Then in April of 2013, I noticed a news article trending on Yahoo that stated that Frank “Lumpy” Bank had died. I had done a few profile pieces on individuals for some magazines, but I had never considered writing a full-length biography. I normally write a crime novel series about a professional blackmailer named One Eyed Jack. Knowing a little about Ken Osmond, the fact that he was a police officer, I think having the author of the One Eyed Jack crime novels co-author his biography was a perfect fit.Ĭhristopher, how did you get involved in the writing of EDDIE: The life and times of America’s preeminent bad boy? I searched for the book on Amazon on the day it was released and saw there was a co-author to the book and he is the talented crime/mystery writer Christopher Lynch. So when I saw that a new book had been written by Ken Osmond (the actor who portrayed Eddie Haskell), I was thrilled.
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