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Mar 21, 2011 · When “Mildred Pierce” was finally published, in 1941, Cain’s alternately stilted and full-bodied portrait of a striving woman was well received, but few reviewers noted the fact that the novel...
He is widely regarded as a progenitor of the hardboiled school of American crime fiction. [1] [2] His novels The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), Double Indemnity (1936), Serenade (1937), Mildred Pierce (1941) and The Butterfly (1947) brought him critical acclaim and an immense popular readership in America and abroad. [3]
James M. Cain, best known as the author of The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and Mildred Pierce, was born in Maryland in 1892. After an army career and early aspirations of becoming a singer, as his mother had be...
James M. Cain. Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness and determination. She used those attributes to survive a divorce in 1940s America with two children and to claw her way out of poverty, becoming a successful businesswoman.
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Warner Bros. Joan Crawford won an Oscar for her performance in the 1945 version of "Mildred Pierce." When James M. Cain died at the age of 85 in 1977, his literary reputation was in...
Apr 1, 2011 · In 119 unrelenting pages, Cain not only indicts middle-class greed and shallowness, he also paints a considerably darker portrait of a man and a woman consumed by their desires. It is a...
Jul 1, 2019 · What can you say about James M. Cain and his work that the man wouldn’t have said better himself? He was a born storyteller, possessed of a keen nose for suspense and a preternatural gift for the rhythms of language as it was spoken in pool halls, lonesome diners, and in the terrible privacy of […]
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