![]() The many novels that followed became instant bestsellers, until in 1980 the US all-time fiction bestseller list of fifteen titles boasted seven by Mickey Spillane. The novel sold six and a half million copies in the United States, and introduced Spillane's most famous character, the hardboiled PI Mike Hammer. He wrote his first novel, I, the Jury (1947), in order to raise the money to buy a house for himself and his first wife, Mary Ann Pearce. He was married three times, the third time to Jane Rogers Johnson, and had four children and two stepchildren. After the war, he moved to South Carolina. ![]() During the Second World War, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps and became a fighter pilot and instructor. ![]() ![]() Born Frank Morrison Spillane in Brooklyn, New York City, Mickey Spillane started writing while at high school. ![]()
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