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James Mallahan Cain (July 1, 1892 – October 27, 1977) was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter. He is widely regarded as a progenitor of the hardboiled school of American crime fiction. [1] [2]
Jun 27, 2024 · James M. Cain was a novelist whose violent, sexually obsessed, and relentlessly paced melodramas epitomized the “hard-boiled” school of writing that flourished in the United States in the 1930s and ’40s. He was ranked with Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler as one of the masters of the genre.
James M. Cain is an internationally acclaimed American novelist whose lurid, violent, sexually charged and relentlessly paced melodramas about crime and desperation epitomized the so-called 'hard-boiled' school of writing that flourished in the United States in the 1930s and ’40s.
James Mallahan Cain (July 1, 1892–October 27, 1977) was an American journalist and novelist. Although Cain himself vehemently opposed labeling, he is usually associated with the hard-boiled school of American crime fiction and seen as one of the creators of the "roman noir."
Complete order of James M. Cain books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.
James M. Cain has 144 books on Goodreads with 199103 ratings. James M. Cain’s most popular book is The Postman Always Rings Twice.
James M. Cain, best known as the author of The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and Mildred Pierce, was born in Maryland in 1892. After an army career and early aspirations of becoming a singer, as his mother had be...
