Dorothy B. Hughes

출생 : 1904-08-10, Kansas City, Missouri, USA

사망 : 1993-05-06

약력

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dorothy B. Hughes (10 August 1904 – 6 May 1993) was an American crime writer and literary critic. Hughes wrote fourteen crime and detective novels, primarily in the hardboiled and noir styles, and is best known for the novels In a Lonely Place (1947) and Ride the Pink Horse (1946). Born Dorothy Belle Flanagan in Kansas City, Missouri, she studied journalism and after graduating from the University of Missouri with a B.J. degree in 1924 worked in that field in Missouri, New Mexico, and New York. She did graduate work in journalism at the University of New Mexico and at Columbia University but did not receive a degree from either institution. Hughes’s first published book, Dark Certainty (1931), a volume of poetry, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. In 1940, she published her first mystery novel, The So Blue Marble. She published eight more mystery novels in the 1940s. She also wrote a history of the University of New Mexico and a critical study of writer Erle Stanley Gardner. In 1951 she received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America in the category of Outstanding Mystery Criticism, and in 1978 she was given the MWA's Grand Master award. Hughes acknowledged the influence of such writers as Eric Ambler, Graham Greene, and William Faulkner.[1] Her writing style and suspenseful plots exemplified the hardboiled genre of crime and detective novels, and her literary career associates her with other female crime writers of the 1940s and 1950s, such as Margaret Millar, Vera Caspary, Elizabeth Sanxay Holding, and Olive Higgins Prouty. Hughes was a successful writer and popular during her day. Three of her novels were made into movies: The Fallen Sparrow (1943), starring John Garfield; In a Lonely Place (1950), directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Humphrey Bogart; and Ride the Pink Horse (1947), directed by and starring Robert Montgomery, which was remade for television in 1964 as The Hanged Man. From 1940 to 1979 she reviewed mysteries for the Albuquerque Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, te New York Herald-Tribune and other newspapers. Hughes made her home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which she used as the setting of several novels. Hughes died in Ashland, Oregon, from complications following a stroke.

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The Hanged Man
The Hanged Man
Novel
A gunman whose best friend has been murdered enacts a plan to blackmail the corrupt labor union leader responsible but finds he isn't the only one after his money.
고독한 영혼
고독한 영혼
Story
딕슨 스틸은 성격이 괴팍하고 냉소적인 할리우드의 작가이다. 어느날 딕슨의 에이전트이자 친구인 멜이 나타나 그에게 소설 원본을 읽고 평가해 달라는 부탁을 한다. 때마침 찾아간 단골 레스토랑의 물품 보관소 직원이 밀드레드 액킨슨이란 여인이 그 책을 읽었다고 하는 말에 딕슨은 그녀에게 함께 자신의 아파트로 가서 그 책에 대해 이야기해 달라고 부탁을 한다. 이런 연유로 딕슨의 아파트로 가게 된 두사람. 그 다음 날 아침 브루브 형사가 딕슨을 찾아와서 어젯밤 그와 함께 있었던 밀드레드란 여인이 변사체로 발견되었다고 알려준다. 오래 전부터 딕슨과 친구였던 브루브는 딕슨의 결백을 믿지만 로츠너 경감은 유력한 용의자로 딕슨을 꼽는데..
핑크 말 타기
핑크 말 타기
Novel
A con man tries to blackmail a Mexican gangster.
The Fallen Sparrow
The Fallen Sparrow
Novel
Imprisoned during the Spanish Civil War, John "Kit" McKittrick is released when a New York City policeman pulls some strings. Upon returning to America, McKittrick hears that a friend has committed suicide, and he begins to smell a rat. During his investigation, McKittrick questions three beautiful women, one of whom has a tie to his refugee past. Pursued by Nazi operatives, McKittrick learns of the death of another friend, and begins to suspect the dark Dr. Skaas.