Joseph Wambaugh
Joseph Wambaugh Born (1937-01-22) January 22, 1937 (age 78) East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Occupation Writer Nationality United States Genre Mystery Subject Non-fiction crime Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh, Jr. (born January 22, 1937) is a bestselling American writer known for his fictional and non-fictional accounts of police work in the United States. Several of his first novels were set in Los Angeles, California, and its surroundings, and featured Los Angeles police officers as protagonists.