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	Cornell Woolrich and Mystery/Supense Writers
		Cornell Woolrich was a pulp writer and novelist whose work is noted for its suspense, emotionalism, and vivid writing.
		Woolrich is part of an American tradition here, one that includes the police extravaganzas of Frederick Irving Anderson, the short police stories by William MacHarg collected in 1940 as The Affairs of O'Malley, and the inverted stories of David X Manners.
		Woolrich's style had ancestors in the pulps: the thrillers of MacKinlay Kantor, and the pulp style known as Weird Menace, that mixed impossible crimes with apparently supernatural events.
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	glbtq >> literature >> Woolrich, Cornell
		Woolrich was born Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich on December 4, 1903, in New York City, to Genaro Hopley-Woolrich, a civil engineer, and Claire Attalie Tarler Hopley-Woolrich.
		At the time, Woolrich was sexually promiscuous, frequently donning a sailor's uniform, which he kept hidden in a locked suitcase, to wander the waterfront at night in search of encounters.
		During his last years, Woolrich was plagued by ill health, perhaps a consequence of the heavy drinking and chain smoking that began when he was a young man. In 1965, he underwent cataract surgery.
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	Cornell Woolrich
		Woolrich is probably one of the "filmed" mystery authors with Rear Window as prime example.
		This is why we have asked the Cornell Woolrich web site and Howard Spindel if we could use scans of old covers where new ones are not available.
		In this thrilling tale of greed and deception, Cornell Woolrich tells of middle-aged Louis Durand, whose fiancée has died fifteen years ago on the eve of their wedding.
	www.bastulli.com /Woolrich/Woolrich.htm (587 words)

	TIME.com Print Page: -- That Old Feeling: Woolrich’s World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Woolrich also wrote that “it might be a really good joke to marry this Gloria Blackton.” Humbert Humbert’s diary, detailing his loveless wedlock with Charlotte Haze and his lust for her daughter Lolita, was no crueler than Woolrich’s nasty punch line to this prank of a marriage.
		If Woolrich was brutally indifferent to his wife’s feelings, in his fiction he could instantly bond with those in desperate need — perhaps because there was such a person in his own life, one whose hold on him he could not, would not break.
		Woolrich, for all his ingenuity, often dealt from a standard deck of mystery-novel tropes, like the fatal ace of spades that cues doom in “Black Alibi” and “Waltz into Darkness.” Threatening or dishonest telegrams, or anonymous notes pushed under the door, set several plots pinwheeling.
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	Cornell Woolrich
		Cornell Woolrich (December, 1903 - September 25, 1968) was a novelist.
		His first novel was Cover Charge[?] published in 1926.
		It was retitled "Rear Window" in 1944 and made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/co/Cornell_Woolrich.html (61 words)

	Works by Cornell Woolrich
		In his introduction to Black Alibi, Francis M Nevins Jnr., describes Woolrich as 'The Poe of the twentieth cntury and the poet of its shadows'.
		The basic story remains the same: in Woolrich's book, the bridegroom is gunned down on the steps of a church moments after the marriage, and the bride spends years tracking down and systematically murdering the people she holds responsible.
		Woolrich originally published this under the pseudonym George Hopley (to be more accurate, his own two middle names - Cornell George Hopley Woolrich); certainly it's not up to the standard of books like Black Alibi, published under his own name.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /haunteddollshouse/woolrich.html (1082 words)

	Bleeker Books - Rendezvous In Black
		Certainly Woolrich can draw out the suspense in each chapter, and the schematic narrative (which often refers to the characters as "the man" or "the woman") invests the narrative with an almost allegorical quality that makes the whole work seem over-the-top.
		Cornell Woolrich's most justly famous novel is one of the true masterpieces of suspense.
		Woolrich makes sure the reader understands exactly how far gone Marr is in the first chapter, as we see the young man continue to turn up at the couple's favorite meeting place night after night, waiting desperately for a woman who will never show up.
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	Woolrich Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Woolrich published his first novel in 1926, and for four decades his fiction riveted the reading public with mystery, suspense, and horror.
		Cornell Woolrich, author of such classics as Rear Window, The Bride Wore Black and Phantom Lady, weaves another bone-chilling tale from the dark side--one in which the everyday has gone horribly wrong.
		Cornell Woolrich reinvented suspense fiction for the twentieth century.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Woolrich (639 words)

	Cornell Woolrich
		Woolrich decayed emotionally and physically even as he wrote his best work, but with his mother's death in 1957 the rate of decline accelerated.
		Woolrich was not a lean and mean writer in the tradition of Hammett and Hemingway, but endlessly descriptive.
		At his best, Woolrich creates a divided reading response, in which complete identification with the protagonist, while desirable, is impossible because of his or her paranoia, amnesia, hypnosis, or a dose of drugs.
	www.case.edu /artsci/engl/marling/hardboiled/Woolrich.HTM (910 words)

	No Man of Her Own
		Cornell Woolrich, writes Francis Nevins, “was the Poe of the 20th century and the poet of its shadows, the Hitchcock of the written word” (1).
		Woolrich was born in New York in 1903 and after his parents separated in 1907 he remained with his father in Mexico until, as a teenager, he joined his mother in New York.
		Woolrich did not care – he was only interested in generating a sense of despair and emotional chaos.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/05/37/no_man.html (2130 words)

	Cornell Woolrich: The Noir 'net
		Woolrich was invited to Hollywood to help with the adaptation and stayed on as a staff writer.
		In addition, fifteen movies were made from Woolrich material between 1942 and 1950 alone and his influence pervaded the culture of the forties so extensively that many film noir classics of that period give the sense of having been adapted from his work even though he had nothing to do with them.
		Woolrich published little new after 1948, apparently because his long absent father's death and his mother's prolonged illnesses paralyzed his ability to write.
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	Cornell Woolrich, Edited by Francis M. Nevins Tonight, Somewhere in New York Reviewed by Mario Guslandi
		One of the founding fathers of noir literature, Woolrich was actually the author of hundreds of short stories published in the most popular detective magazines of the '30s and '40s, later collected in a number of books now sadly out of print.
		The few collections of Woolrich's stories currently available are due to the expert and loving work of Francis M. Nevins, who has edited such invaluable volumes such as 'Nightwebs' and 'Night and Fear'.
		In the present volume Nevins has assembled nine, previously uncollected stories from the late '50s and '60s when Woolrich's creative force was growing faint and he had started to revise and recycle some of his early, forgotten stories, selling them to magazine editors under different titles.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2006/woolrich-tonight_ny.htm (563 words)

	The Weird Review: Cornell Woolrich
		Called "our poet of the shadows," Cornell Woolrich coined the catchy slogan, "First we dream, then we die" by which I, too, guide my life.
		Some of his stories appeared almost randomly under the Irish & Woolrich names, & there is no distinction as to type of tales, except he seemed to prefer Irish more often for short stories.
		The Fantastic Stories Of Cornell Woolrich (Southern Illinois University Press, 1981) is all fantasies, with another Nevins introduction & memorable Afterwords by Barry Malzberg who gives a tragic portrait of this great writer.
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	Cornell Woolrich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich (December 4, 1903 - September 25, 1968) was an American novelist and short story writer.
		His parents separated when Cornell was young, and he lived in Latin America with his father, before moving back to New York City to live with his mother Claire.
		Woolrich lived the last thirty-five years of his mother's life with her in a seedy hotel room in Harlem, New York, although he did move in and out of the room into another room at the same hotel frequently.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cornell_Woolrich (628 words)

	The Cornell Woolrich Noir Board: Boucher-Woolrich correspondence
		Woolrich's reply, dated July 23, solves one of the puzzles of his working life that I could never answer before last week.
		Describing Woolrich's "Jane Brown's Body" (All-American Fiction, March-April 1938), Boucher says: "This brilliantly macabre concept spoiled for me by 2 things: a.) My pet irritation of writing excvlusively in present tense; b.) A pulp plot so formulaly obvious that each step can be accurately forecast.
		Inept, for Woolrich, but because of his name let's include." The story was in fact reprinted in FandSF for October 1951.
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	McFarland - Publisher of Reference and Scholarly Books
		Extremely popular and prolific in the 1930s and 1940s, Cornell Woolrich still has diehard fans who thrive on his densely packed descriptions and his spellbinding premises.
		Twenty-two stories and 30 films compose the bulk of the study, though many other additions of films noirs are also considered because of their relevance to Woolrich’s plots, themes, and characters.
		The introduction includes a biographical sketch of Woolrich and his relationship to the noir era, and the book is illustrated with stills from Woolrich’s noir classics.
	www.mcfarlandpub.com /book-2.php?isbn=0-7864-2351-X (218 words)

	The Jason Boog Show: "First you dream, then you die..."
		A couple years ago, I even interviewed Woolrich’s biographer Francis M. Nevins for a magazine story that never panned out, in true Woolrich failure fashion.
		A few months later, Nevins had this amazing Woolrich article published in The Believer magazine, in honor of Woolrich’s 100th birthday.
		Woolrich fans celebrate his centenary in 2003, but nobody remembers him at the hotel.
	jasonboogshow.blogspot.com /2006/01/first-you-dream-then-you-die.html (435 words)

	Fire and Sword - Deadline at Dawn Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Cornell Woolrich was the Homer of bleak, urban landscapes, of heroes that the gods had forgotten, and of epic battles fought by desperate losers struggling to carve out a brief moment of love before the relentless wheels of heaven grind them underfoot.
		Woolrich style, these innocents are caught up in someone else's crime, not by accident, but because coincidence is a mask for cosmic cruelty that makes sport of humanity.
		Originally published in 1944 under Woolrich’s penname William Irish, Deadline at Dawn was one of many Woolrich novels reprinted by Ballantine in the ‘80s.
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	Amazon.de: The Cornell Woolrich Omnibus: "Rear Window" and Other Stories, I Married a Dead Man, Waltz Into Darkness: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Woolrich's biographer called it his greatest a work, and to read it is "to die a little." Be warned, this is a wrecking piece of prose, so tense and so frightening that you will never forget it, although you may try....
		Woolrich was trying to write a "mainstream" novel here, but his worldview seeps into every page.
		Oddly enough, for a "Woolrich Omnibus", two novels that were originally published as by William Irish have been selected, and, even then, two of his lesser novels under that pseudonym.
	www.amazon.de /Cornell-Woolrich-Omnibus-Stories-Darkness/dp/0140269770 (1253 words)

	Cornell Woolrich Summary
		Although his work is not as widely read as that of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich almost single-handedly invented the noir genre--creating a dark, psychologically menacing world--and producing some of the greatest works of pure s...
		Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich(December 4, 1903- September 25, 1968) was an American novelist and short story writer.
		His parents separated when Cornell was young, and he lived in Latin America with his father, before moving back to New York City to liv...
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	CORNELL WOOLRICH Pulp Magazine File Cards
		CORNELL WOOLRICH: A BIBLIOGRAPHY - Additions by Paul Herman and Steve Lewis.
		The first definitive bibliography of the novels and short stories of mystery author Cornell Woolrich was compiled by Francis M. Nevins, Jr., and it appeared at the end of Nevins’ mammoth work on Woolrich’s life, First You Dream, Then You Die (Mysterious Press, 1988).
		After all, we are certain that neither “Chick Walsh” or “Tex Brooks” would have had the eye-catching appeal of the real name of the prolific Cornell Woolrich.
	www.mysteryfile.com /Woolrich.html (1707 words)

	Virtual Marginalia: Review of Woolrich, Cornell
		This omnibus contains three Woolrich books: Rear Window, a collection of short stories; I Married a Dead Man, a noir thriller and Waltz into Darkness a noir set in antebellum New Orleans.
		Woolrich tries out the noir tropes in a very un-noirish setting.
		All of Woolrich's stories have a kind of claustrophobic paranoia about them that almost always turns out to be justified.
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	TIME.com -- Richard Corliss: That Old Feeling: Woolrich’s World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Some of his admirers threw a memorial tribute Friday, at the Mercantile Library of New York on East 47th Street, in the white rage of a Manhattan blizzard.
		Woolrich isn’t in the league of Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler as a weaver of mood through the precise or voluptuous phrase.
		Cornell George Hopley Woolrich was born December 4, 1903, of English, Spanish and Jewish blood.
	www.time.com /time/columnist/corliss/article/0,9565,557218,00.html (3376 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Black Curtain: Books: Cornell Woolrich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		I've read in other places that Woolrich was best at atmosphere, and not with logic as to plotting.
		Cornell Woolrich certainly has some comparative "duds" in his long collection of mystery novels and stories.
		The Black Curtain can be considered a dud because of its contrived story, but as with all Woolrich stories it is still very readable...
	www.amazon.ca /Black-Curtain-Cornell-Woolrich/dp/034530490X (331 words)

	Amazon.com: The Cornell Woolrich Omnibus: Rear Window and other stories: Books: Cornell Woolrich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Mystery aficionado Ellery Queen said of Cornell Woolrich that he can "distill more terror, more excitement, more downright nail-biting suspense out of even the most commonplace happenings than nearly all his competitors." Woolrich's work continues to fascinate readers all around the world, and this trilogy should become a staple in all noir collections.
		I am an avid fan of James Ellroy, but other than that noir fiction was not known to me. Cornell Woolrich's writing was consistently well written, amazingly well-timed, and delivered in a manner that can only be compared with the likes of F.Scott Fitzgerald.
		Woolrich's work is dark and truly haunting, leaving a thrillingly eerie aftertaste.
	www.amazon.com /Cornell-Woolrich-Omnibus-Window-stories/dp/0140269770 (2305 words)

	Cornell Woolrich, father of Noir Fiction
		Cornell Woolrich's life was as tragic as some of his stories, as he lived most of his life with his mother, in hotels, an alcoholic and a sexually conflicted and tormented individual.
		This webpage is not affliated with the Estate of Cornell Woolrich, and generates no profit from the works of Cornell Woolrich.
		It is intented solely as a community for the fans of Cornell Woolrich and as an archive repository of Woolrich historical items.
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	CORNELL WOOLRICH
		We know that “Insult” is by Woolrich only because he told Bill Thailing when they met back in the 1950s, and Bill told me when we met in the 1970s, a few years after Woolrich died.
		As Paul Herman and Steve Lewis document elsewhere, Woolrich submitted at least six of his pulp suspense tales under pseudonyms – one as by Tex Brooks, the others as Chick Walsh.
		Of all the radio dramas based on Woolrich novels and stories during that medium’s golden age, the finest was “The Black Curtain” (SUSPENSE, CBS, December 2, 1943), which starred Cary Grant and was based on Woolrich’s 1941 novel of the same name.
	www.mysteryfile.com /nevins_905.html (531 words)

	Cornell Woolrich's 'Night and Fear' reviewed on the official website of writer, Laura Hird
		In his Introduction to the present volume editor Francis M. Nevins calls Cornell Woolrich (1903-1968) "The Hitchcock of the written word." Indeed the great British director — who also adapted a couple of Woolrich's stories for the TV- based his masterpiece ‘Rear Window’ on one of the writer's novels.
		In Woolrich's world full of petty thieves, ruthless murderers, untalented musicians, unfaithful lovers, fascinating ladies, the eternal struggle between good and evil takes so many forms that one wonders what else is the actual bottom line of our existence.
		Reading Woolrich's fiction you have the feeling you're watching a fl-and-white suspense movie featuring the likes of Humphrey Bogart or Fred McMurray, yet there's not a single scene or a single dialogue which sounds outdated.
	www.laurahird.com /newreview/nightandfear.html (924 words)

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