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Robert Lindsey is a journalist and author of several true crime books, including The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage , the story of Christopher John Boyce and Andrew Daulton Lee, who were both convicted of selling information to the Soviets. The Flight of the Falcon: The True Story of the Escape and Manhunt for America's Most Wanted Spy followed, a chronology of Christopher Boyce's escape from Federal prison and subsequent bank robbing spree.

In 1980 he received the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best non-fiction crime book for "The Falcon and the Snowman." He won the 1989 CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction for A Gathering of Saints: a true story of money, murder and deceit.

Lindsey worked as a reporter and editor at the San Jose Mercury-News and The New York Times, and also served as the Los Angeles bureau chief for The New York Times.

Marlon Brando and Ronald Reagan used Lindsey's assistance when writing their autobiographies, respectively, Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me, and "Ronald Reagan: An American Life." Lindsey's memoir, Ghost Scribbler," was published in 2013.

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Robert Lindsey

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Books from Robert Lindsey

The Complete Plays

Songs My Mother Taught Me

The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship & Espionage

A Gathering of Saints: A True Story of Money, Murder and Deceit

The Flight of the Falcon: The True Story of the Escape & Manhunt for America's Most Wanted Spy

Irresistible Impulse

The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage

Ghost Scribbler

Reagan the Man, the President

Ronald Reagan. Una revolución conservadora

The Flight of the Falcon

Travels of Robert and Sarah Lindsey: Illustrated (Classic Reprint)

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Volume 16

Me And My Girl

Sonny Kaniho: A Profile in Hawaiian Courage 1922–2009