![]() It was expected to be published sometime next year, his friends said.ĭiehl was formerly a writer for the Journal-Constitution, and had been a freelance photographer and magazine editor. It was turned into the 1996 film starring Richard Gere and Edward Norton.ĭiehl was writing his 10th novel at the time of his death. The author's other novels included "Primal Fear," a 1993 thriller about a lawyer defending a young man accused of slaying an archbishop. Diehl hadn't paid the bill, Parver told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. When his agent first called to tell him, the phone line went dead. The book, published in 1978, became a best-seller and - later - a movie starring Burt Reynolds.ĭiehl was unemployed when he got the news that the book was going to be published, his longtime friend Michael Parver said. Diehl, then 50, was bored by the trial and started writing fiction on a notepad. ![]() He started on his first novel, "Sharky's Machine," while serving as a juror. ![]() He died of aortic embolism, said his wife, Virginia Gunn. William Diehl, best-selling author of "Primal Fear" and other novels, has died at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. ![]()
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