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Nobody else has ever quite pulled it off the way cain does, not. Cain was a firstrate writer of american hardboiled crime fiction. Mildred pierce kindle edition by cain, james m literature. Cain published eighteen books in all and was working on his autobiography at the time of his death. James m cain s hardboiled novels of greed, lust and murder made for perfect film noir. Cain, novelist whose violent, sexually obsessed, and relentlessly paced melodramas epitomized the hardboiled school of writing that flourished in the united states in the 1930s and 40s.
Two of cains other novels, mildred pierce 1941 and double indemnity 1943, were also made into film noir classics. Cains first novel, published relatively late in life for a writer, when he was in his forties. James mallahan cain july 1, 1892 october 27, 1977 was an american author and journalist. James graduated from the same college in 1910, and became a writer for baltimore american, then baltimore sun still being published by 1914.
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