Books
November, 1995
The raw honesty of Robert Ward's Red Baker, a portrait of American blue-collar life published in 1985, showed that he was an author with great potential. In the decade since then, he became producer and writer for Hill Street Blues and Miami Vice, and it looked as though he would be a literary talent lost to the world of television. But Ward is back in the bookstores with The Cactus Garden (Pocket Books) and with a reprint of his first book, Shedding Skin (Washington Square Press). This double f...