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(1924-2018) Writer. Alan Abel was born in Zanesville, Ohio, and died in Southbury, Connecticut. He lived for a time in Manhattan, New York.

Full Name

Alan Abel

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline

Unknown

RESIDENCE

Mr. Abel lived for a time in Manhattan, New York.

1924

BIRTH

Alan Irwin Abel was born in Zanesville, Ohio, on August 2, 1924.

1966

LITWORK

The Great American Hoax
Trident Press

Nonfiction.

1970

LITWORK

The Confessions of a Hoaxer
Macmillan

Nonfiction.

1976

LITWORK

Is There Sex After Death?
Bantam Books
0552677132 ISBN-13: 978-0552677134
Nonfiction written with Jeanne Abel.

1977

LITWORK

The Panhandlers Handbook
New York: Kensington

Nonfiction written as Omar the Beggar.

1983

LITWORK

Don't Get Mad--Get Even! A Manual for Retaliation
W. W. Norton & Company
0393016145 / 978-0393016147
Nonfiction.

1984

LITWORK

How to Thrive on Rejection
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
0934878447 ISBN-13: 978-0934878449
Nonfiction.

2018

DEATH

Alan Abel died at his home in Southbury, Connecticut, on September 14, 2018.

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