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Title American hard-boiled crime writers / George Parker Anderson and Julie B. Anderson, editors.

Publication Info. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Group, 2000.

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Series Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 226
Dictionary of literary biography complete online
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 226.
Dictionary of literary biography complete online.
Contents Lawrence Block (1938- ) --Howard Browne (1908-1999) -- James Lee Burke (1936- ) -- W. R. Burnett (1899-1982) -- James M. Cain (1892-1977) -- Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) -- James Crumley (1939- ) -- Carroll John Daly (1889-1958) -- Thomas B. Dewey (1915-1981) -- Davis Dresser (Brett Halliday)(1904-1977) -- James Ellroy (1948- ) -- Loren D. Estleman (1952- ) -- Steve Fisher (1913-1980) -- William Campbell Gault (1910-1995) -- David Goodis (1917-1967) -- Joe Gores (1931- ) -- Sue Grafton (1940- ) -- Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) -- Joseph Hansen (1923- ) -- Chester Himes (1909-1984) -- Ed Lacy (Len Zinberg)(1911-1968) -- Elmore Leonard (1925- ) -- Kenneth Millar (Ross Macdonald)(1915-1983) -- Marcia Muller (1944- ) -- Frederick Nebel (1903-1967) -- Bill Pronzini (1943- ) -- Mickey Spillane (1918- ) -- Jim Thompson (1906-1977) -- Raoul Whitfield (1898-1945) -- Charles Willeford 91919-1988) -- Cornell Woolrich (1903-1968).
Summary Essays on American writers whose lives and careers span the history of hard-boiled writing, from its birth in American pulp magazines of the 1920s to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Characteristic of this writing is an objective viewpoint, impersonal tone, violent action, colloquial speech, touch characters and understated style, usually but not limited to detective or crime fiction.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mi: Gale, 2007. Available via World Wide Web.
Original Version Original: 437 p.
System Details Mode of access: Internet.
Subject Crime in literature.
Crime in literature.
Detective and mystery stories, American.
Detective and mystery stories, American.
Genre/Form Detective and mystery stories, American.
Subject Noir fiction, American.
Noir fiction, American.
Added Author Anderson, George Parker, 1957-
Anderson, Julie B., 1959-
Gale Group.
ISBN 0787631353
9780787631352