John Franklin Bardin

John Franklin Bardin (November 30, 1916 – July 9, 1981) was an American crime writer, best known for the three novels he wrote between 1946 and 1948.

Biography Bardin was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Nearly all of his immediate family died of various illnesses; with the exception of "Mother had become a paranoid schizophrenic by then," Bardin said. "It was on visits to her that I first had an insight into the 'going home' hallucinations" that would later form the core of his third novel, Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly.

After gradually rising to become vice president and director of Edwin Bird Wilson, Bardin left that agency in 1963. Two years earlier, he had begun teaching creative writing and advertising at the New School for Social Research, which he would continue to do through 1966. That year he worked as associate publicity director for the United Negro College Fund, and from 1967 to 1968, he wrote for the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York. Turning to magazines, he then served as an editor at Coronet through 1972.

He resided in New York City's East Village. He died on July 9, 1981, at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan, New York City. He was survived by his second wife, Phyllida.

Legacy As of at least 2010, Bardin's copyrights are held by Franklin C. Bardin and Judith A. Bardin, a.k.a. Judith Aycock, his children from his first marriage.

In other media The Last of Philip Banter was adapted into a 1986 film produced, directed and cowritten by Hervé Hachuel and starring Scott Paulin, Irene Miracle, Gregg Henry, Kate Vernon and Tony Curtis.