As a young man, he was a mechanic and driver for the trucking company his father had started, and was an engineer at the Los Angeles water department. He sold short stories to Scribner's, The New Republic, and Esquire.
Name is pronounced bez-AIR-a-dees.
Later, when he worked at the movie studios, stars such as Edward G. Robinson hired him to rewrite their dialogue.
Born in Turkey, but grew up in the San Joaquin Valley, an area of Fresno, California.
Born in 1908 to a Greek father and Armenian mother, Bezzerides immigrated to Fresno, California when he was a toddler.