Dorothy B. Hughes (1904–1993)
Auteur van In a Lonely Place
Over de Auteur
Werken van Dorothy B. Hughes
Dorothy B. Hughes Mystery Reader : Containing Two Complete Novels : The So Blue Marble & The Fallen Sparrow (1944) 5 exemplaren
Sherlock Holmes and the Muffin 3 exemplaren
The Granny Woman 2 exemplaren
Blood on the Black Market | The Great Yant Mystery | The Blackbirder (1943) — Medewerker — 2 exemplaren
Hoation ruminates {short story} 1 exemplaar
Kiss for a Killer 1 exemplaar
An Omnibus of Terror: Three Mysteries 1 exemplaar
O URSO ESTRÁBICO 1 exemplaar
Moordvakanties 1 exemplaar
Gerelateerde werken
Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense (2013) — Medewerker — 170 exemplaren
Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s and 1950s (2015) — Medewerker — 59 exemplaren
The Delicate Ape | Six Silver Handles | And the Deep Blue Sea — Medewerker — 2 exemplaren
Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Hughes, Dorothy Belle
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Flanagan, Dorothy Belle (birth name)
Hughes, Dorothy B. - Geboortedatum
- 1904-08-10
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1993-05-06
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Ashland, Oregon, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- Opleiding
- University of Missouri (journalism)
University of New Mexico
Columbia University - Beroepen
- journalist
crime novelist
literary critic
poet - Relaties
- Hughes, Jr., Levi Allan (husband)
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- MWA Grand Master (1978)
Edgar Award (Outstanding Mystery Criticism, 1951) - Korte biografie
- Dorothy B. Hughes was one of the most popular and successful mystery and detective writers from the 1940s through the 1950s. She had a great influence on the next generation of authors, especially women. She started her literary life as a poet, which helps explain the lyrical quality of her writing. Her work had more in common with British writers of the period such as Graham Greene and Eric Ambler than with Americans such as James M. Cain and Raymond Chandler. In Hughes’s novels, the male, hardboiled swagger is replaced by a more nuanced unease, even a sense of terror, with unseen forces, doomed heroes, and existentialism questioning of a world sinking into the barbarism of World War II. She was a master of atmosphere who vividly captured the moods and the dark side of the period. Her best known novel, In a Lonely Place (1947), was adapted into a now-classic 1950 film directed by Nicholas Ray.
Leden
Discussies
142. In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes in Backlisted Book Club (maart 2022)
Besprekingen
Lijsten
Franklit (1)
Put a Bird On It (1)
Prijzen
Misschien vindt je deze ook leuk
Gerelateerde auteurs
Statistieken
- Werken
- 32
- Ook door
- 18
- Leden
- 2,313
- Populariteit
- #11,103
- Waardering
- 3.8
- Besprekingen
- 93
- ISBNs
- 137
- Talen
- 7
- Favoriet
- 4