Helen Eustis (1916–2015)
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Helen Eustis was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on December 31, 1916. She graduated from Smith College in 1938. She was pursuing a doctorate in English at Columbia University, when she gave up her studies in favor of a writing career. She wrote for several magazines in the 1940s including Harper's toon meer Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, and The New Yorker. Her first novel, The Horizontal Man, won the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award for best first novel in 1947. Her other works included The Captains and the Kings Depart, The Redheaded Woman, and The Fool Killer, which was adapted into a 1965 film starring Anthony Perkins and Edward Albert. She also translated books written in French by authors including Christiane Rochefort and Georges Simenon. She died on January 11, 2015 at the age of 98. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: Cut down scan from back cover of Penguin No.718. Unattributed photo.
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- Eustis, Helen White
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Harris, Helen Eustis
- Geboortedatum
- 1916-12-31
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2015-01-11
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- New York, New York, USA
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- Smith College (BA | 1938)
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- mystery writer
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novelist - Korte biografie
- Helen Eustis was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her mother Bessie Langdon Eustis died when her daughter was a young child, and she was raised by her father, Harold Eustis, a socially prominent stockbroker. She began writing as a child. She graduated from Smith College, where she won a creative writing award, with a degree in English literature in 1938. That year, she married Alfred Young Fisher, her English professor, with whom she had a son. She pursued a doctorate in English at Columbia University in New York City before giving up her studies in favor of a writing career. Ms. Eustis began contributing stories to Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, The New Yorker, and other magazines in the 1940s. She published a collection of stories, The Captains and the Kings Depart, in 1949. A children’s story, "The Rider on a Pale Horse," which first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in 1950, later became a children's book titled Mr. Death and the Redheaded Woman (1954). Her college experiences inspired her debut novel The Horizontal Man (1947), a mystery set at a small college in which a philandering English professor is murdered amid psychologically unstable students and professors. The book received critical acclaim and won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America the following year. At about that time, her marriage to Prof. Fisher broke down, and they divorced. Ms. Eustis’s other works, a novel and several short stories, often contained elements of psychological drama. Her Civil War thriller The Fool Killer (1954) was adapted into a 1965 Hollywood film of the same name. In later years, she translated works from French by authors such as Christiane Rochefort, Georges Simenon, Romain Gary, Michel Salomon, and Edmonde Charles-Roux.
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We know a woman killed him and we know she declared her love for him just before doing the deed. What we don’t know is whether this particular student is the murderer, or if her confession is simply part of her hysteria. The story unfolds through the viewpoint of a number of characters some of whom I liked much more than others. Although I was sure that I knew who the murderer was, the author managed to completely blindside me in the last few pages.
I found The Horizontal Man a challenging read as the author didn’t break the book into chapters, instead the book ran as one narrative so I didn’t always realize when one narrator was changed to another. At times I felt the author delved too deeply into psychology but overall it is a compelling and unusual story.… (meer)