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   May 26, 2020 · 'The End of Me,' the last and best of Alfred Hayes' reissued midcentury novels, features a man reborn and proves there's life after screenwriting.

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   Jun 15, 2020 · Our critic-at-large, John Powers, has a review of a new reissue of a novel by Alfred Hayes, who John says is one of our great writers about social and personal disillusionment. Hayes was a...

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   Alfred Hayes (18 April 1911 – 14 August 1985) was an American screenwriter, television writer, novelist, and poet, who worked in Italy as well as the United States. His well-known poem about "Joe Hill" ("I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night") was set to music by Earl Robinson, and performed by Pete Seeger, Joan Baez and many other artists.

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   That great celebration of the state-murdered IWW activist, I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night, was originally a poem by Hayes. Hayes was born in Whitechapel on April 11 1911 to working-class, left-wing Jewish family who moved to New York when he was three.

7. www.rte.ie › culture › booksReviewed: The End of Me by Alfred Hayes - RTÉ

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   Jun 26, 2020 · There is a touch of Albert Camus and existentialist gloom about Alfred Hayes' wistful, candid tale of despair, desire and manipulation played out in late 1960s New York.

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   Alfred Hayes. Asher is fifty years old and as this story starts he has just come back to New York on a journey into his past, and that of the city—a quest after what he was and a search for what goes on now. The city has changed and so has Asher.

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   What is Alfred Hayes best known for?

   • Alfred Hayes (18 April 1911 – 14 August 1985) was a British screenwriter, television writer, novelist, and poet, who worked in Italy and the United States. He is best known for his poem "Joe Hill" ("I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night…"), later set to music by Earl Robinson.

   In Love by Alfred Hayes - Goodreads

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   Did Alfred Hayes live a Jewish life?

   • It turns out that Alfred Hayes lived a life that was like an encapsulated history of the 20th century. Born Jewish in London, he moved to New York as a kid and grew up to become a left-wing journalist and poet. He wrote "Joe Hill," a poem about a labor activist. It became a song made famous by Joan Baez.

   Reissue Of 'The End of Me' Helps Cement Alfred Hayes

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   Who is Lord Alfred Hayes?

   • Lord Alfred Hayes is a wrestler who had a great deal of initial success in American wrestling and won a number of top titles in different promotions. This led to Vince McMahon signing him to a contract and he made his debut in the WWF.

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   How many books did Alfred Hayes write?

   • Guilty of dust and sin. Over a period of some fifty-odd years Alfred Hayes worked as a reporter, a screenwriter, a novelist, and a poet. When he died in 1985 he left behind seven novels, three volumes of poetry, a collection of short stories, and at least a dozen screenplays.

   Sex, Noir & Isolation | by Vivian Gornick | The New York

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   Is it a good time to remember Alfred Hayes?

   • Hayes, however, provides a welcome alternative — small, reflective novels about the struggles of not entirely fictional human beings. And at a time when our private lives seem to be growing smaller in the face of titanic historical forces, it is probably a good time to be remembering Alfred Hayes.

   A great Hollywood novelist, nearly lost and rediscovered

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   What happened to John Hayes?

   • Hayes was a poet, novelist and screenwriter, whose name largely fell from view in the years after his death in 1985. But with the reissue of three of his novels, his reputation has been making a comeback Here's John's review of "The End Of Me."

   Reissue Of 'The End of Me' Helps Cement Alfred Hayes

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    Mar 25, 2021 · In his novels, Alfred Hayes explored what he saw as noir’s central concern: the inability to feel the reality of your own life, or anyone else’s.