| 词条 | Robert Tralins |
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| name = Robert Tralins | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth-date|28 April 1926}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death-date and age|20 May 2010|28 April 1926}} | death_place = | nationality = American | other_names = | occupation = Novelist | years_active = 1960s - 2010 | known_for = | notable_works = }}Robert Tralins (April 28, 1926 – May 20, 2010) was a prolific author/novelist whose career began in the 1960s and continued until his death. He is best known for his first-hand research and story collections featured on the television shows Miracles and Other Wonders and Fact or Fiction.[1] BiographyTralins first became known when he wrote Pleasure Was My Business, the tell-all memoirs of Madam Sherry, an infamous, Miami, Florida, madam.[1] The book was put on trial in rem and banned in the State of Florida.[1] The ban was later reversed in a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. (See TRALINS v. GERSTEIN, 378 U.S. 576 (1964)). In an internationally publicized lawsuit filed by ex-King Farouk of Egypt claiming never to have been in Miami, Tralins produced documentary evidence that he had indeed been, and won a $750,000 libel lawsuit and judgment against him.[2] Tralins has published 251 books under his own name and a dozen pseudonyms, including Sean O'Shea.[1] He is best known for his novels Squaresville Jag, The Cozmozoids, Android Armageddon, Black Pirate, Panther John, the Miss From S.I.S. series, the Valentine Flynn novels, a dozen mind, body, spirit books, and numerous historical novels. And for a series of papaerback novels in which a James Bond-like character, Jack Lund, defeats drug lords, terrorists, and evil-intentioned occult groups.[1] Selected Published Works
References1. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite news|last1=Meacham|first1=Andrew|title=Robert Tralins wrote banned and bordello books, as well as stories that inspired 'Beyond Belief'|url=http://www.tampabay.com/news/obituaries/robert-tralins-wrote-banned-and-bordello-books-as-well-as-stories-that/1097642|accessdate=2 March 2015|publisher=Tampa Bay Times|date=25 May 2010|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402113411/http://www.tampabay.com/news/obituaries/robert-tralins-wrote-banned-and-bordello-books-as-well-as-stories-that/1097642|archivedate=April 2, 2015|df=mdy-all}} 2. ^{{cite news|title='Madam' says Farouk was prize patron|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1734&dat=19620623&id=U44bAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XlEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1787,6325475|accessdate=2 March 2015|agency=UPI|publisher=The Dispatch|date=23 June 1962}} External links and sources
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