Gar Anthony Haywood (born 1954) is an American author of crime fiction.
He was born in Los Angeles in 1954, and worked as a computer technician for over a decade before he started publishing novels.
[1] Fear of The Dark (1988) won the Shamus Award for best first private investigator novel.
The Aaron Gunner books are hardboiled detective fiction, inspired by Ross Macdonald's Los Angeles novels.
[1] Haywood has also written numerous screenplays for television, including an episode of New York Undercover and the TV movie adaptation of Bad As I Wanna Be, the autobiography of basketball player Dennis Rodman.