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Horace Stanley McCoy (April 14, 1897 – December 15, 1955) was an American writer whose mostly hardboiled stories took place during the Great Depression. His best-known novel is They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Horace Stanley McCoy (1897–1955) was an American novelist whose gritty, hardboiled novels documented the hardships Americans faced during the Depression and post-war periods.
Feb 27, 2015 · HORACE MCCOY knew failure intimately. In 1931 he left behind a successful career in journalism and pulp writing in Dallas to pursue acting in Los Angeles, only to fall into two years of manual...
Horace McCoy has 26 books on Goodreads with 29930 ratings. Horace McCoy’s most popular book is They Shoot Horses, Don't They?.
Horace McCoy was born on 14 April 1897 in Pegram, Tennessee, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Speed Wings (1934), The Lusty Men (1952) and Dangerous Mission (1954). He died on 16 December 1955 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
May 17, 2011 · Horace McCoy, author of the 1935 novel ‘They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?’, had been a bouncer at one of those marathons so he was writing from personal experience. He saw the dance marathons as a perfect metaphor for the futility of existence and Gloria Beatty is the perfect antiheroine for such a bleak vision.
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? is a novel written by Horace McCoy and first published in 1935. It was adapted into Sydney Pollack's 1969 film of the same name. The story mainly concerns a dance marathon during the Great Depression.
Apr 23, 2011 · The ruthlessness of Hollywood is laid bare in Horace McCoy's classic 1935 novel, writes Anita Sethi
Horace Stanley McCoy (18971955) was an American novelist whose gritty, hardboiled novels documented the hardships Americans faced during the Depression and post-war periods.
Jan 7, 2009 · Another was Horace McCoy, probably the best known of the lot. McCoy’s name has already appeared on booklit where, after a tentative treading of the toes in American noir, with James M. Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice, it was suggested in the comments that next up should be McCoy’s They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1935).
