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William Lindsay Gresham (/ ˈ ɡ r ɛ ʃ ə m /; August 20, 1909 – September 14, 1962) was an American novelist and non-fiction author particularly well-regarded among readers of noir. His best-known work is Nightmare Alley (1946), which was adapted to film in 1947 and 2021.
William Lindsay Gresham (August 20, 1909 – September 14, 1962) was an American novelist and non-fiction author particularly regarded among readers of noir. His best-known work is Nightmare Alley (1946), which was adapted into a 1947 film starring Tyrone Power. Gresham was born in Baltimore, Maryland.
Nov 30, 2021 · Gresham’s wicked lyricism is unique: a gutter literacy that probes the stars, at times a celestial literacy that probes the gutter. The nightmare alley into which William Lindsay Gresham leads us is not one of moral depravity, for the nicety of morality has nothing to do with it.
Nightmare Alley is a novel by American writer William Lindsay Gresham, published in 1946. It is a study of the depths of show business and its immoral inhabitants—the dark, shadowy world of a second-rate carnival filled with hustlers, scheming grifters , and Machiavellian femmes fatales .
William Wilkins (“Lindsay”) Gresham was born in Baltimore, Maryland on August 20, 1909 to Henry H. and Aline Lindsay Gresham. The oldest of two boys, Bill had one younger brother named Henry, who was called “Lindsay” and later “Hank” by family and friends.
Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a carnival-show geek—alcoholic and abject and the object of the voyeuristic crowd’s gleeful disgust and derision—going about his work at a county fair. Young Stan Carlisle is working as a carny, and he wonders how a man could fall so low.
William Lindsay Gresham has 20 books on Goodreads with 25206 ratings. William Lindsay Gresham’s most popular book is Nightmare Alley.
