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Cornell George Hopley Woolrich (/ ˈ w ʊ l r ɪ tʃ / WUUL-ritch; December 4, 1903 – September 25, 1968) was an American novelist and short story writer. He sometimes used the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley .
Cornell Woolrich is widely regarded as the twentieth century’s finest writer of pure suspense fiction. The author of numerous classic novels and short stories (many of which were turned into classic films) such as Rear Window, The Bride Wore Black, The Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Waltz Into Darkness, and I Married a Dead Man, Woolrich began his career in the 1920s writing mainstream novels ...
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Jan 10, 2022 · The truth is much more complicated. January 10, 2022 By Curtis Evans. People think they have the lowdown on the down-low life of mid-century American writer Cornell George Hopley Woolrich (1903-1968)—author, primarily during the Thirties and Forties, of over a dozen crime novels, including his celebrated series of “Black” mysteries (The ...
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Jun 6, 2022 · Cornell Woolrich. If he didn’t exist, it would take a writer of just his unique bent to create such a character. Born in 1903, in New York, into what seems to have been an unhappy marriage, he was a pale, sickly, underweight child who lived with his father in Mexico for ten years before his mother retrieved him at thirteen and returned him to his hometown.
Cornell Woolrich Cornell Woolrich was a pulp writer and novelist whose work is noted for its suspense, emotionalism, and vivid writing. He started out as a mainstream writer in the 1920's, whose work was in the tradition of F. Scott Fitzgerald. When the Depression caused him to lose his markets, he turned to the pulp magazines to survive.
Jan 8, 2020 · Woolrich’s longest novel, Waltz trades his usual Manhattan nightscapes for the gaslight and cobblestones of 1880 New Orleans. All that poor Louis Durand, the novel’s ostensible hero, wants is to love, and be loved. Fifteen years earlier, his fiancée died of yellow fever on the night before their wedding.
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The Bride Wore Black is a 1940 American novel written by Cornell Woolrich, initially published under the pseudonym William Irish. [1] [2] Although it was Woolrich's seventh published novel, it was the first in the noir/pulp style for which he would become known, his previous novels having been Jazz Age fiction about the wealthy and privileged.
