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   Dorothy B. Hughes (August 10, 1904 – May 6, 1993) was an American crime writer, literary critic, and historian.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).

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3. www.newyorker.com › books › page-turnerThe Crime of Blackness: Dorothy B. Hughes’s Forgotten Noir

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   Aug 15, 2012 · With this summer’s reissue of the 1963 noir “The Expendable Man,” New York Review Books has given readers the opportunity to rediscover the extraordinary Dorothy B. Hughes.

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4. crimereads.com › the-unsettling-existential-noirThe Deeply Unsettling Noir of Dorothy B. Hughes ‹ CrimeReads

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   Aug 9, 2019 · Celebrate the dark visions of literature's queen of noir, who wrote novels that conjured up a terrible, ineffable sense of dread. Read some of her finest, most unsettling lines from In a Lonely Place, The Davidian Report, and more.

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5. lareviewofbooks.org › article › on-the-worlds-finestOn the World’s Finest Female Noir Writer, Dorothy B. Hughes

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   Aug 12, 2012 · Dorothy B. Hughes — the B stands for Belle, and Hughes replaced her maiden name, Flanagan, when she married Lewis Hughes in 1932 — is my favorite crime writer. Full stop.

6. crimereads.com › dorothy-b-hughes-dread-journeyRediscovering Dorothy B. Hughes' Brutal Hollywood Take-Down,

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   Dec 3, 2019 · Sarah Weinman praises Dread Journey, a 1945 novel by Dorothy B. Hughes, as a suspenseful and psychological study of Hollywood characters on a murderous train. She explores how Hughes depicts the dreams, ambitions, and betrayals of her characters, and how they relate to the role of Clavdia Chaucat.

7. womencrime.loa.org › writers › dorothy-b-hughesDorothy B. Hughes | Women Crime Writers of the 1940s and 50s

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   Dorothy B. Hughes. Born Dorothy Belle Flanagan on August 10, 1904, in Kansas City, Missouri, the oldest child of Frank S. Flanagan and Calla Belle Callahan Flanagan. Knew she wanted to be a writer at the age of six, when she first learned how to read. Graduated from the University of Missouri in 1924 with a major in journalism, did graduate ...

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   Who was Dorothy B Hughes?

   • On the World’s Finest Female Noir Writer, Dorothy B. Hughes. By Sarah Weinman. AUGUST 12, 2012. ONE CAN READ TOO much into an author’s dedication, but the one Dorothy B. Hughes used for her 1942 novel The Fallen Sparrow is as telling in what it doesn’t say as it is in what it does:

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   Did Dorothy B Hughes ever say 'Dread journey'?

   • She never said, and we’ll never know. The work can transcend the writer, and Dorothy B. Hughes had so much talent, and so much precision, that masterpieces emerged out of the constraints of genre. Dread Journey is a prime example of this transcendence.

   Rediscovering Dorothy B. Hughes' Brutal Hollywood Take-Down,

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   Did Dorothy B Hughes write a locked-room mystery?

   • Dorothy B. Hughes, however, wasn’t writing a locked-room mystery, but a suspense novel steeply suffused with the dread of the novel’s title.

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   What is the difference between Densmore & Hughes?

   • Densmore is a doctor, trained to penetrate the body and not stay on its surface. But Hughes is a crime writer, concerned with appearances. Her brilliant descriptive powers make and unmake reality.

   The Crime of Blackness: Dorothy B. Hughes’s Forgotten Noir

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9. www.loa.org › writers › 546-dorothy-b-hughesDorothy B. Hughes - Library of America

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   Jul 12, 2017 · Born Dorothy Belle Flanagan on August 10, 1904, in Kansas City, Missouri, the oldest child of Frank S. Flanagan and Calla Belle Callahan Flanagan. Knew she wanted to be a writer at the age of six, when she first learned how to read. Graduated from the University of Missouri in 1924 with a major in journalism, did graduate work at the University ...