Writing as John Godey he achieved commercial success with the books A Thrill a Minute With Jack Albany, Never Put Off Till Tomorrow What You Can Kill Today, and The Three Worlds of Johnny Handsome.
He then began using the pen name John Godey - borrowed from the name of a 19th-century women's magazine - to differentiate his crime novels from his more serious writing. His novel The Wall-to-Wall Trap was published under his own name in 1957.
A WWII U.S.Army veteran he held public relations and publicity posts for United Artists, 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures and other companies for several years before focusing on his writing. In the 1940s, he had several articles and short stories published in Cosmopolitan, Collier's, Esquire and other magazines while working full time in the motion picture industry in New York City. Other novels by Freedman include The Year's Death (1953), The Reluctant Assassin (1966), The Snake (1978), and Fatal Beauty (1984).John Godey was the pen name of Morton Freedgood.įreedgood was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York in 1913 and began writing at a young age. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1973), for example, was adapted as a 1974 movie. These were his most successful endeavors, and Freedman would publish over a dozen crime stories, some of which were adapted to film. With the exception of the novels The Wall-to-Wall Trap (1957) and Yankee Trader (1947), which he wrote under the joint pseudonym Stanley Morton with Stanley Freedgood, he focused on crime novels under the Godey name. He eventually gave this up to write full time.
After attending the City College of New York, he worked as a public relations man for various movie studios, including 20th Century-Fox, Paramount, and United Artists. Freedgood was best known for the crime novels he wrote under the pseudonym John Godey. 1913, in New York, NY died April 16, 2006, in West New York, NJ. (John Godey, Stanley Morton, a joint pseudonym) OBITUARY NOTICE.
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