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  2. 1930–1980. Stephen Gould Fisher (August 29, 1912 – March 27, 1980) was an American author best known for his pulp stories, novels and screenplays. He is one of the few pulp authors to go on to enjoy success as both an author in "slick" magazines, such as the Saturday Evening Post, and as an in-demand writer in Hollywood .

    • Author of pulp stories, novels, and screenplays
    • August 29, 1912, Marine City, Michigan, U.S.
  3. www.imdb.com › name › nm0279795Steve Fisher - IMDb

    Writer: Destination Tokyo. Steve Fisher was born on 29 August 1912 in Marine City, Michigan, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Destination Tokyo (1943), Hell's Half Acre (1954) and Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1955). He was married to Edithe Seimes.

    • Writer, Producer
    • August 29, 1912
    • Steve Fisher
    • March 27, 1980
  4. Sep 10, 2017 · Steve Fisher. I Wake Up Screaming, the limited edition collection of Steve Fishers influential crime fiction writing, includes seven stories from Black Mask Magazine, three representative tales from minor pulps of the same period, the first publication in almost twenty years of his most famous novel, I Wake Up Screaming.

  5. As a short-story writer for the pulps (usually under the name Steve Fisher), he was known primarily for his hardboiled crime stories—many of which featured private investigator Sheridan Doome—for Black Mask in the 1930s and 1940s.

  6. Died. March 27, 1980. Genre. Mystery & Thrillers. edit data. Born in 1912 in Marine City, Michigan, Stephen Gould Fisher was thirteen when he sold his first story to a magazine. At sixteen he joined the Marines. He was still in the service when he began to publish stories and articles in US Navy and Our Navy. Discharged from the Marines in Los ...

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    • March 27, 1980
    • August 29, 1912
  7. As the pulps disappeared in the forties and fifties though, his career took a downswing. It was the growing popularity of television that gave him an opportunity to make a good living as a writer again. In the late 1950s Fisher started to write scripts for The George Sanders Mystery Theatre and Michael Shayne, Detective.

  8. If you love hardboiled crime fiction from the forties and fifties like I do, you will absolutely feast on this Steve Fisher novel. It was originally published in 1941 and immediately made into a hit movie starring Betty Grable and Victor Mature. Later, Fisher updated the novel in 1961, perhaps to appeal to contemporary (at that time) readers.

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