Get Hold Of Sixty Years Of Journalism Articulated By James M. Cain Released As Readable Copy
late James M. Cain was a newspaperman, playwright, and novelist, Although best known for his controversial novels The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, Serenade, The Butterfly, and Past All Dishonor, Cain always considered himself a journalist, a "newpaperman who wrote yarns on the side.
" The book includes some of Cain's best articles and essays, The material is sometimes serious, sometimes humorous and provides a unique look atyears of history, James Mallahan Cain July,October,was an American journalist and novelist, Although Cain himself vehemently opposed labeling, he is usually associated with the hard boiled school of American crime fiction and seen as one of the creators of the roman noir.
He was born into an Irish Catholic family in Annapolis, Maryland, the son of a prominent educator and an opera singer, He inherited his love for music from his mother, but his high hopes of starting a career as a singer himself were thwarted when she told him that his voice was not good enough.
After graduating from Washington College where his father, James W, Cain served as president, in, he began working as a journalist for The Balti Sun, He was drafted into th James Mallahan Cain July,October,was an American journalist and novelist, Although Cain himself vehemently opposed labeling, he is usually associated with the hard boiled school of American crime fiction and seen as one of the creators of the "roman noir.
"He was born into an Irish Catholic family in Annapolis, Maryland, the son of a prominent educator and an opera singer, He inherited his love for music from his mother, but his high hopes of starting a career as a singer himself were thwarted when she told him that his voice was not good enough.
After graduating from Washington College where his father, James W, Cain served as president, in, he began working as a journalist for The Balti Sun, He was drafted into the United States Army and spent the final year of World War I in France writing for an Army magazine.
On his return to the United
States he continued working as a journalist, writing editorials for the New York World and articles for American Mercury.
He also served briefly as the managing editor of The New Yorker, but later turned to screenplays and finally to fiction, Although Cain spent many years in Hollywood working on screenplays, his name only appears on the credits of three films, Algiers, Stand Up and Fight, and Gypsy Wildcat.
His first novel he had already published Our Government in, The Postman Always Rings Twice was published in, Two years later the serialized, in Liberty Magazine, Double Indemnity was published, He made use of his love of music and of the opera in particular in at least three of his novels: Serenade about an American opera singer who loses his voice and who, after spending part of his life south of the border, re enters the States illegally with a Mexican prostitute in tow, Mildred Pierce in which, as part of the subplot, the only daughter of a successful businesswoman trains as an opera singer and Career in C Major a short semi comic novel about the unhappy husband of an aspiring opera singer who unexpectedly discovered that he has a better voice than she does.
He continued writing up to his death at the age of, His last three published works, The Baby in the Icebox, Cloud Nineand The Enchanted Islebeing published posthumously.
However, the many novels he published from the lates onward never quite rivaled his earlier successes, sitelink.