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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).
Aug 15, 2012 · By Christine Smallwood. August 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...
- Christine Smallwood
Aug 9, 2019 · To mark the anniversary of her birth, we’ve collected here a selection of some of her finest, most unsettling lines. Together they offer up a glimpse of her dark world view, and they begin, but only begin, to capture that deep sense of dread that was such a trademark of Hughes’ fiction.
- Dwyer Murphy
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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.
Named Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America in 1978. Published Erle Stanley Gardner: The Case of the Real Perry Mason (1978), which won her an Edgar Award for best critical/biographical work in 1979. Died in Ashland, Oregon, on May 6, 1993. Read an appreciation of Hughes’s novel In a Lonely Place by Megan Abbott.
Dec 3, 2019 · December 3, 2019 By Sarah Weinman. Via American Mystery Classics. “Dorothy B. Hughes (1904–1993)—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.”
Jul 12, 2017 · 1904–1993. Dorothy B. Hughes (womencrime.loa.org) I’m Dreaming of a Noir Christmas: Classic Crime Thrillers of the 1960s. “Every Variety of Madness and Malevolence”: Geoffrey O’Brien on American Crime Fiction in the 1960s. In a Lonely Place: Film noir as an opera of male fury. View all. Major works:
