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Author Description John Godey was the pen name of Morton Freedgood.<br /><br />Freedgood was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York in 1913 and began writing at a young age. In the 1940s, he had several articles and short stories published in <i>Cosmopolitan </i>, <i>Collier's, Esquire </i> and other magazines while working full time in the motion picture industry in New York City. 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.<br /><br />His novel <i>The Wall-to-Wall Trap</i> was published under his own name in 1957. 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.<br /> <br /><br />Writing as John Godey he achieved commercial success with the books <i>A Thrill a Minute With Jack Albany, Never Put Off Till Tomorrow What You Can Kill Today</i>, and <i>The Three Worlds of Johnny Handsome</i>. <i>The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3</i>, his novel about the hijacking of a New York City subway train, was a bestseller in 1973 and was made into a hit movie starring Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw in 1974. A remake starring Denzel Washington and John Travolta was released in the summer of 2009.He saw his Jack Albany stories turned into the 1968 Walt Disney film <i>Never a Dull Moment</i>, starring Dick Van Dyke.

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