{{short description|American author|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox writer/doc --> | name = Robert Fate | image = Robertfateauthor.jpg | imagesize = 127 × 205 | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = Robert Fate Bealmear | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1935}} | birth_place = Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Writer | period = | genre = Mystery | subject = | movement = | notableworks = "Baby Shark" | spouse = Fern Mador Bealmear | partner = | children = Jennifer Marie Bealmear | relatives = | influences = | influenced = | awards = Technical Achievement Oscar 1984 | signature = | website = {{URL|http://www.robertfate.com}} | portaldisp = }}
'''Robert Fate''' (born '''Robert Fate Bealmear''', 1935) is an American author, best known for the ''Baby Shark'' series of mystery novels.
Born in 1935 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Fate joined the US Marine Corps after High School. He used his GI Bill to go to schools in the US as well as the Sorbonne in Paris.
Before becoming a writer he worked in various fields and won an Oscar for his work in motion picture special effects <ref>[http://wwwdb.oscars.org/ampas/plsql/ampas_search.main?free_text_in=ROBERT%20BEALMEAR AMPAS - Index of Motion Picture Credits - Films] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070829221732/http://wwwdb.oscars.org/ampas/plsql/ampas_search.main?free_text_in=ROBERT%20BEALMEAR |date=August 29, 2007 }}</ref>
==Awards== For the ''Baby Shark'' series *2008 Anthony award Finalist<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bouchercon.info/nominees.html#2008 |title=Bouchercon World Mystery Convention : Anthony Awards Nominees |publisher=Bouchercon.info |date=2003-10-02 |accessdate=2012-02-27 |archive-date=2012-02-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207060829/http://www.bouchercon.info/nominees.html#2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> *Book of the Year Finalist, Foreword Magazine *Editor's Choice Award Finalist, Allbooks Review *Optioned by Brad Wyman
==Bibliography== *''Baby Shark'' (2006) {{ISBN|0-9776276-9-1}} *''Baby Shark’s Beaumont Blues'' (2007) {{ISBN|0-9776276-2-4}} *''Baby Shark’s High Plains Redemption'' (2008) {{ISBN|0-9799960-2-3}} *''Baby Shark's Jugglers at the Border'' (2009) {{ISBN|978-0-9799960-5-4}} * 'Kill the Gigolo' ' (2010) * ''Baby Shark's Showdown at Chigger Flats'' (2011)
==References==
<references/> *[http://wwwdb.oscars.org/ampas/plsql/ampas_search.main?free_text_in=ROBERT%20BEALMEAR AMPAS Oscar Technical Award]
==External links== *[http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/F_Authors/Fate_Robert.html Bibliography] *[http://www.reviewingtheevidence.com/interviews.html?id=2 Interview on Reviewing The Evidence]
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