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An upbringing in a household with two highly literate parents contributed to the boy's "impeccable grammar" and his early enthusiasm for literature. Cain's father, then the head of the Annapolis School Board, indulged his son's request to skip two grades, from third to fifth.
Complete order of James M. Cain books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.
James M. Cain was a novelist whose violent, sexually obsessed, and relentlessly paced melodramas epitomized the “hard-boiled” school of writing that flourished in the United States in the 1930s and ’40s. He was ranked with Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler as one of the masters of the genre.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Written in the 1930s and '40s, the Cain novels are about people living in those times. These old novels are entertainment still, underlining why reading and writing are ageless. James Cain enjoyed developing ideas for novels and using the typewriter to record them. He researched all his themes.
James Mallahan Cain, son of James William and Rose Mallahan Cain, was born in Annapolis, Maryland, on July 1, 1892. He was the eldest of five children, including his three sisters—Rosalie,...
James M. Cain has 143 books on Goodreads with 198146 ratings. James M. Cain’s most popular book is The Postman Always Rings Twice.
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Dec 6, 1985 · The Five Great Novels of James M. Cain: The Postman Always Rings Twice / The Butterfly / Serenade / Mildred Pierce / Double Indemnity. James M. Cain. 4.50. 66 ratings5 reviews. James M. Cain is the third member of the trio who had such enormous influence, not only on the writing of detective fiction, on film and the way America was viewed.
