Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joseph Wambaugh pictured in Hollywood in 2007 to promote his book Hollywood Station, which recalled the golden days of the LAPD he ...

Joseph Wambaugh, the writer who mined his years as a Los Angeles Police Department patrolman for a series of bestselling crime books including The Onion Field, The New Centurions, The Blue Knight and ...

Longtime family friend Janene Gant told The New York Times that Wambaugh died Friday of esophageal cancer at his home in Rancho Mirage. (Photo by Chris Stone/Times of San Diego) Former Los Angeles ...

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Longtime family friend Janene Gant told The New York Times that Wambaugh died Friday of esophageal cancer at his home in ...

Joseph Wambaugh, whose experience as an LAPD officer enabled him to bring a warts-and-all realism to his novels about policing and the movies and TV shows like “Police Story,” died Friday in Rancho ...

LOS ANGELES — Joseph Wambaugh, who wrote the gripping, true-crime bestseller "The Onion Field" and numerous gritty but darkly humorous novels about day-to-day police work drawn from his own ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Joseph Wambaugh, who wrote the gripping, true-crime bestseller "The Onion Field" and numerous gritty but darkly humorous novels about day-to-day police work drawn from his own ...