Dorothy Uhnak(1930-2006)
- Writer
Born next to the 46th Precinct house in the Bronx, almost from birth
Dorothy Uhnak (prounced YOU-nak) knew that she wanted to be a cop. As
it was, she spent fourteen years (twelve as a detective) on the
Metropolitan New York Transit Police before resigning to finish her
education at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan. While
there, she published her first book, the semi-autobiographical
"Policewoman" and was soon writing and publishing police procedurals
and detective novels, both book-length and short fiction. A number of
her writings became made-for-television movies.
