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James M. Cain was born in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1892. Having served in the US Army in World War 1, he became a journalist in Baltimore and New York in the 1920's. He later worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood. Cain died in 1977.Vivid, gritty, real...this is crime writing at its very best
MY WEEKLY
Cain has established a formidable reputation of furious pace, harsh and masterful realism, tough, raw speech right out of the mouths of the people
SATURDAY REVIEW
It is no accident that that movies based on three (of Cain's novels) helped to define the genre known as film noir
NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF BOOKS
After Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler Cain is the writer most often credited with defining the "hard-boiled", the tough-talking, fast-moving urban stories of violence, sex and money that characterised so much popular film and fiction in America during the 1930s and 40s
GUARDIAN
Cain was not just a great hard-boiled novelist but a great novelist, period ... To read MILDRED PIERCE now is to experience a double vision, in which we confront both how much and how little things have changed.
LA TIMES
Vivid, gritty, real...this is crime writing at its very best
MY WEEKLY