Dorothy B. Hughes (1904–1993)
Autor de In a Lonely Place
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Dorothy B. Hughes
Dorothy B. Hughes Mystery Reader : Containing Two Complete Novels : The So Blue Marble & The Fallen Sparrow (1944) 5 copias
Sherlock Holmes and the Muffin 3 copias
The Granny Woman 2 copias
Blood on the Black Market | The Great Yant Mystery | The Blackbirder (1943) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Hoation ruminates {short story} 1 copia
Kiss for a Killer 1 copia
O URSO ESTRÁBICO 1 copia
Moordvakanties 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense (2013) — Contribuidor — 173 copias
The Delicate Ape | Six Silver Handles | And the Deep Blue Sea — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Hughes, Dorothy Belle
- Otros nombres
- Flanagan, Dorothy Belle (birth name)
Hughes, Dorothy B. - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1904-08-10
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1993-05-06
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Ashland, Oregon, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- Educación
- University of Missouri (journalism)
University of New Mexico
Columbia University - Ocupaciones
- journalist
crime novelist
literary critic
poet - Relaciones
- Hughes, Jr., Levi Allan (husband)
- Premios y honores
- MWA Grand Master (1978)
Edgar Award (Outstanding Mystery Criticism, 1951) - Biografía breve
- 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.
Miembros
Debates
142. In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes en Backlisted Book Club (marzo 2022)
Reseñas
Listas
Franklit (1)
Premios
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 32
- También por
- 18
- Miembros
- 2,344
- Popularidad
- #10,936
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 95
- ISBNs
- 137
- Idiomas
- 7
- Favorito
- 4
This is NOT the movie!!
(if you are interested in both, I strongly suggest reading the novel first.)