Joseph Wambaugh: From Winchell's Donuts to Ruth's Chris
Fifty cops. Author Joseph Wambaugh isn’t exactly sure why or how he settled on that number as the one required to write a novel. But as he told interviewer Lee Goldberg yesterday at the LA Times Festival of Books, this was once again–give or take a few participants–the amount of background interviews he personally conducted before sitting down to write his latest, Harbor Nocturne.
Since Wambaugh lives in Point Loma, San Diego, the meeting point for his latest round of anecdotal fact-finding with San Pedro area cops was a Ruth’s Chris Steak House in Irvine.
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