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1. www.nybooks.com › articles › 2021/05/27On Alfred Hayes | Josephine Hayes Dean | The New York Review ...

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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. March 25, 2021 issue

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   Mar 25, 2021 · Sex, Noir & Isolation. Vivian Gornick. 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. March 25, 2021 issue. Reviewed:

3. morningstaronline.co.uk › article › cFrom Joe Hill to Hollywood — the rediscovery of Alfred Hayes

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   Thursday, March 25, 2021. From Joe Hill to Hollywood — the rediscovery of Alfred Hayes. NICK MATTHEWS looks at the life of the communist who wrote the famous working-class poem I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night and finds a talented screenwriter and novelist.

4. www.latimes.com › entertainment-arts › booksA great Hollywood novelist, nearly lost and rediscovered

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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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5. annabookbel.net › alfred-hayes-and-his-three-agesAlfred Hayes and his three ages of failed love… – AnnaBookBel

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   May 30, 2020 · In Love. A lost man props up a New York bar one afternoon, striking up a conversation with the young woman next to him. He tells her a story, of his relationship with another young woman and how it was poisoned by an ‘indecent proposal’ – a rich businessman offers her $1000 to spend the night with him.

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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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   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.

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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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   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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8. www.lrb.co.uk › the-paper › v41Lucie Elven · Home’s for suicides: Alfred Hayes’s Hollywood

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   Jul 18, 2019 · ‘D ark, Dantean , witty’, Alfred Hayes saw himself as personifying ‘a new sort of “young generation”, the lyric poet of the New York working class, of the strike front, the writer of sketches that bite into the memory’. Born in London in 1911 to a Jewish family that emigrated to the US when he was three, Hayes left school in 1929 ...