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Terry Beatty Illustrator

Max Allen Collins was hailed in 2004 by Publisher's Weekly as "a new breed of writer." A frequent Mystery Writers of America nominee in both fiction and non-fiction categories, he has earned an unprecedented eighteen Private Eye Writers of America nominations, winning for his Nathan Heller novels, True Detective (1983) and Stolen Away (1991). Terry Beatty is an artist and sculptor whose work includes the Ms. Tree series and related titles Mike Mist and Johnny Dynamite, as well as inking DC's The Batman Strikes. He is also a teacher at the University of Minnesota.