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James Mallahan Cain (July 1, 1892 – October 27, 1977) was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter. He is widely regarded as a progenitor of the hardboiled school of American crime fiction .
James M. Cain (born July 1, 1892, Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.—died October 27, 1977, University Park, Maryland) was a novelist whose violent, sexually obsessed, and relentlessly paced melodramas epitomized the “hard-boiled” school of writing that flourished in the United States in the 1930s and ’40s.
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- October 27, 1977
- July 1, 1892
- The Postman Always Rings Twice.
- Double Indemnity.
- Mildred Pierce.
- The Cocktail Waitress.
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James M. Cain (1892-1977) is an internationally acclaimed American novelist whose lurid, violent, sexually charged and relentlessly paced melodramas about crime and desperation epitomised the so-called “hard-boiled” school of writing that flourished in the United States in the 1930s and ’40s.
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