Dorothy B Hughes
Dorothy B. Hughes (1904-1993) was a mystery author and literary critic. Born in Kansas City, she studied at Columbia University and won an award from the Yale Series of Younger Poets for her first book, the poetry collection Dark Certainty (1931). After writing several unsuccessful manuscripts, she published The So Blue Marble in 1940, winning praise for its terse, hard-boiled prose. Hughes published thirteen more novels, the best known of which are The Fallen Sparrow (1942), Ride the Pink...See more
Dorothy B. Hughes (1904-1993) was a mystery author and literary critic. Born in Kansas City, she studied at Columbia University and won an award from the Yale Series of Younger Poets for her first book, the poetry collection Dark Certainty (1931). After writing several unsuccessful manuscripts, she published The So Blue Marble in 1940, winning praise for its terse, hard-boiled prose. Hughes published thirteen more novels, the best known of which are The Fallen Sparrow (1942), Ride the Pink Horse (1946), In a Lonely Place (1947). All three were made into successful films. In the early fifties, Hughes largely stopped writing fiction, preferring to focus on criticism, for which she would go on to win an Edgar Award. In 1978, the Mystery Writers of America presented Hughes with the Grand Master Award for literary achievement. See less
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Dorothy B Hughes book reviews
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In a Lonely Place
Revisiting In A Lonely Place
The New York Review of Books has recently reissued Dorothy Hughes' novel "In a Lonely Place". The novel is also included in a Library of America two-volume set of "Women Crime Writers" of the 1940s ... Read More
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In a Lonely Place
Inside the mind of a killer
This is a novel from another age. The age of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. Anyone that played the wonderful L.A. Noire video game from a couple of years ago will feel right at home here. ... Read More