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David Goodis
Born March 2, 1917 (1917-03-02)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died January 7, 1967 (aged 49)
Pen name David Crewe, Logan Claybourne, Lance Kermit, others
Occupation Novelist, screenwriter
Nationality Flag of the United States United States
Genres Noir fiction, crime fiction

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Biography

Born in Philadelphia, Goodis had two younger brothers, but one died of meningitis at the age of three. Philadelphia (ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə After high school in Philadelphia, Goodis studied at Indiana University for a year before transferring to Temple University, where he graduated in 1938 with a journalism degree. Indiana University, founded in 1820, is a nine-campus University system in the state of Indiana. Temple University is a state-related public research University in Philadelphia. Journalism is the profession of writing or communicating formally employed by publications and broadcasters for the benefit of a particular Community of people

While working at an advertising agency, he started writing his first novel, Retreat from Oblivion. After it was published by Dutton in 1939, Goodis moved to New York City, where he wrote under several pseudonyms for pulp magazines, including Battle Birds, Daredevil Aces, Dime Mystery, Horror Stories, Terror Tales and Western Tales, sometimes churning out 10,000 words a day. The City of New York Over a five-and-a-half year period, according to some sources, he produced five million words for the pulp magazines, while also scripting for such radio adventure serials as Hop Harrigan, House of Mystery and Superman. Hop Harrigan first appeared in All American Comics #1 created by Jon Blummer ( Fighting Yank, Little Boy Blue) as one of the first successful The Adventures of Superman, adapted from the DC Comics character created in 1938 (see Superman) came to Radio as a syndicated Novels Goodis wrote during the early 1940s were rejected by publishers, but in 1942, he spent some time in Hollywood as one of the screenwriters on Universal's Destination Unknown.

His big break came in 1946 when his novel Dark Passage was serialized in The Saturday Evening Post, published by Julian Messner and filmed for Warner Brothers with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall heading the cast. Dark Passage ( 1946) is a novel by David Goodis which was the basis for the 1947 film noir Dark Passage. The Saturday Evening Post was a weekly Magazine published in the United States from August 4, 1821 to February 8, Warner Bros Entertainment Inc (or Warner Bros, Warner Bros Pictures) is one of the world's largest producers of Film and Delmer Daves directed what is now regarded as a classic film noir, and a first edition of the 1946 hardcover is valued at more than $800. Delmer Daves ( July 24, 1904 &ndash August 17, 1977) was an American screenwriter director and producer

Arriving in Hollywood, Goodis signed a six‑year contract with Warners where he scripted The Unfaithful (a remake of Somerset Maugham's The Letter). Some of his scripts were never produced, including Of Missing Persons and an adaptation of Raymond Chandler's The Lady in the Lake. Raymond Thornton Chandler ( July 23, 1888 &ndash March 26, 1959) was an American Author of crime stories and novels

In 1950, Goodis returned to Philadelphia where he lived with his parents and his schizophrenic brother Herbert. At night, he prowled the underside of Philadelphia, hanging out in nightclubs and seedy bars, a milieu he depicted in his fiction. Cassidy's Girl (1951) sold over a million copies, and he continued to write for paperback publishers, notably Gold Medal. There was a renewed interest in his novels when François Truffaut filmed Down There (1956) as the acclaimed Shoot the Piano Player (1960). François Roland Truffaut ( February 6 1932 – October 21 1984) was one of the founders of the French New Wave in filmmaking Shoot the Piano Player ( French: Tirez sur le pianiste, aka Shoot the Pianist) is a 1960 French film

Goodis died in 1967 of cirrhosis of the liver. After his death, his work went out of print in the United States, but he remained a popular favourite in France. In 1987, Black Lizard began to reissue Goodis titles. Black Lizard was a Publisher imprint during the 1980s A division of the Creative Arts Book Company of Berkeley California, Black Lizard specialized in In 2007, Hard Case Crime published a new edition of The Wounded and the Slain for the first time in more than 50 years. Hard Case Crime is an American publisher of Paperback Hardboiled Crime novels founded in 2004 by Charles Ardai, also known as the founder of the Also in 2007 Street of No Return and Nightfall were re-published by Millipede Press.

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Paul D Marks is a contemporary author of Detective, noir and Crime fiction, though not only genre fiction
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