Author Don Winslow on How He Boarded the Train to Literary Success
With the release of Oliver Stone’s new film Savages, a broader audience is set to discover the wondrous fiction of source author Don Winslow.
Winslow has already received much critical praise and royalties for a series of books framed around the notorious drug-dealing past of Laguna Beach. Before Savages and the just-released prequel The Kings of Cool, there was the author’s debut 1997 effort. As Winslow explains in today’s OC Weekly cover story by Nick Schou, he cranked out that work from a very unusual perch:
Everything changed with The Death and Life of Bobby Z, which led to a three-book deal that allowed him to become a full-time writer.
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