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Byrne began his career in 1954 as a Junior Civil Engineer for the City and County of San Francisco, Department of Engineering, Bureau of Public Works, Division of Highways. In 1955, a year later, he found a way to combine his engineering and writing talents by joining Western Construction magazine as a reporter for the heavy construction industry.[1] In 1961, he was named editor of the magazine, a position he held for over ten years. Byrne became a full-time writer in 1977 after the publication of his third book. He is the author of seven novels, five collections of humorous quotations, seven books on billiards, two anthologies, and an expose of frauds in the literary world. One of his novels, Thrill, was made into NBC's Monday Night Movie, which aired for the first time on May 20, 1996. Four of his novels were selections of Reader's Digest Condensed Books and published in over a dozen languages. Byrne's unusual mix of talents as a writer, engineer and billiard player formed the right skill set to create what would become one of the definitive instructional works on cue sports. Byrne's Standard Book of Pool and Billiards, published in 1978 and expanded in 1998, has sold over 500,000 copies. It is one of the very few such works that includes diagrams that are mathematically and physically accurate, plotting the path of the center of the balls, which never quite reach the cushions of the table. Byrne coined the pool jargon term \"squirt\" in this book, defining the deflection effect that sends the cue ball toward the right when struck with left sidespin, and vice versa. Byrne's books, hundreds of instructional magazine articles, seven instructional videos (shot on sound stages in Burbank and Hollywood, California), have established him as the preeminent teacher and commentator in the world of pool and billiards. He has been a columnist and Contributing Editor for Billiard Digest magazine since its first issue in 1978, and a columnist for Dubuque's Telegraph Herald since 2000. His most recent publication is Behold My Shorts, a collection of a decade of his monthly newspaper columns. After living in California for nearly 40 years, Byrne moved back to his childhood home of Dubuque, Iowa with Cindy in 1996, which was not without complications due to the controversial nature of his semi-autobiographical novel Memories of a Non-Jewish Childhood."},{"label":"Search SCL Digital Collections for this Author","value":["Byrne, Robert, 1930-"]},{"label":"Search Author or Book in Library Catalog","value":"Search for works by Robert Byrne in the library catalog"},{"label":"Author Website","value":"View personal or professional website for Robert Byrne"},{"label":"Search Author in Open Library","value":"Search for works by Robert Byrne in Open Library"},{"label":"Author's Place(s) of Residence","value":["Petaluma"]},{"label":"Sort Title","value":"Robert Byrne (1930-)"},{"label":"Significant Title","value":"Byrne's Complete Book of Pool Shots : 350 Moves Every Player Should Know"},{"label":"Digital Collections Identifier","value":"robert_byrne"},{"label":"Digital Collection Name(s)","value":["Sonoma County Local Authors"]},{"label":"Date Added","value":"2016/05/25"},{"label":"Filename","value":"robert_byrne.jpg"},{"label":"Main or Supplied Title","value":"Robert Byrne (1930-)"},{"label":"Item Type","value":["Text"]},{"label":"Item Format or Genre","value":["Biography files","Bibliographies","Portraits","Photographs"]},{"label":"Search SC Local Arts for this Author or Artist","value":"Robert Byrne (1930-)"},{"label":"Collection(s)","value":["Sonoma County Local Authors"]},{"label":"Author Name","value":["Robert Byrne (1930-)"]}],"description":"Robert Byrne (1930-)","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/24340815-d18a-4c08-ac3f-7bba832dd6a7/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"Robert Byrne (1930-)","height":450,"width":450,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/24340815-d18a-4c08-ac3f-7bba832dd6a7/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":null,"service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/24340815-d18a-4c08-ac3f-7bba832dd6a7/","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":null}]},"height":450,"width":450},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/24340815-d18a-4c08-ac3f-7bba832dd6a7/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/24340815-d18a-4c08-ac3f-7bba832dd6a7/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/24340815-d18a-4c08-ac3f-7bba832dd6a7/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/logo"}