![]() I told him I had been a ball turret gunner. "I introduced myself and told him about my situation," Diehl told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2002. He got the job after staking out the lobby and waiting for Editor Ralph McGill to walk by. ![]() was born in Jamaica, N.Y., and served in the Army Air Forces during World War II.Īfter graduating from the University of Missouri, he moved to Atlanta in 1949 and joined the staff of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper. Diehl, a former Atlanta journalist and photographer, wrote nine novels that appealed to popular tastes with plot lines fueled by murder, greed, romance and other forms of mayhem. ![]() 24 at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. William Diehl, 81, the best-selling author known for "Sharky's Machine" and "Primal Fear," both fast-paced thrillers that were made into box-office hits, died Nov. ![]()
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