Curt Gentry

Curt Gentry

Curt Gentry (born 1931) is an American writer. He is best known for co-writing the book Helter Skelter with Vincent Bugliosi (1974), which detailed the Charles Manson murders. Gentry lives in San Francisco, California.

Helter Skelter won a 1975 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Fact Crime book.[citation needed]

Select works

  • The Last Days of the Late, Great State of California, 1968
  • J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets[1]
  • The Madams of San Francisco: An Irreverent History of the City by the Golden Gate, 1964, paperback reprint 1971
  • The Killer Mountains: A Search for the Legendary Lost Dutchman Mine
  • Helter Skelter: The True Story Of The Manson Murders (with Vincent Bugliosi)
  • Frame-up: The Incredible Case of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings
  • The Dolphin Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area
  • Jade: Stone of Heaven (with Richard Gump)
  • John M. Browning: American Gunmaker (with J. Browning)
  • The Vulnerable Americans
  • A Kind of Loving (with Toni Lee Scott)
  • Operation Overflight: The U-2 Spy Pilot Tells His Story for the First Time (with Francis Gary Powers)
  • Second in Command: The Uncensored Account of the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo (with Edward R. Murphy)

References

  1. ^ Johnston, David (September 9, 1991). "Hoover: Still a Shadow Not to Be Stepped On". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/09/books/hoover-still-a-shadow-not-to-be-stepped-on.html. Retrieved 16 July 2010. 



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