Curt Gentry, a San Francisco author who wrote or co-wrote 13 books including best-sellers "Helter Skelter" about the Charles Manson case and a harshly critical biography of FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover, died July 10 in a San Francisco hospital. The Man and the Secrets an absolutely fascinating study of the man who ran the Federal Bureau of Investigation for half a century. Mr. Gentry interviewed hundreds of former FBI agents and reviewed 100,000 pages of previously classified information. [...] Mr. Gentry wrote articles and started various projects, including unfinished biographies of Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., and John Steinbeck and a book on the origins of Las Vegas, said Tony Dingman, who was a friend for over 40 years. After military service, he attended the University of Colorado and then San Francisco State College. Among his books was "The Last Days of the Late, Great State of California," a novel featuring a giant earthquake that caused California to slide into the ocean.
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