João Carlos Marinho, Date of Birth, Date of Death

João Carlos Marinho

Brazilian writer and lawyer

Date of Birth: 25-Sep-1935

Date of Death: 17-Mar-2019

Profession: writer, lawyer, poet, children's writer, novelist

Nationality: Brazil

Zodiac Sign: Libra

João Carlos Marinho Homem de Mello (25 September 1935 – 17 March 2019) was a Brazilian writer and former lawyer.
He was best known by the pen names João Carlos Marinho and João Carlos Marinho Silva.
He authored, among other books, O Gênio do Crime, his first novel published in 1969.
His work, mainly juvenile thrillers, is considered a landmark in the renewal of the Brazilian children's literature in the 1970s.
He wrote 18 titles, 13 of them dedicated to the adventures of the Turma do Gordo.