5/19/2023 0 Comments Mildred pierce book review![]() It was tried for obscenity in Boston, was said by Albert Camus to have inspired his own book, "The Stranger," and is now a classic. ![]() His first novel, "The Postman Always Rings Twice," was published when he was forty-two and at once became a sensation. Mencken on "The American Mercury." He later wrote editorials for Walter Lippmann on the "New York World" and was for a short period managing editor of "The New Yorker," before he went to Hollywood as a script writer. John's College in Annapolis and then worked for H. He returned to become professor of journalism at St. ![]() Born in Baltimore, the son of the president of Washington College, he began his career as reporter on the Baltimore papers, served in the American Expeditionary Force in World War I and wrote the material for "The Cross of Lorraine," the newspaper of the 79th Division. Cain (1892-1977) is recognized today as one of the masters of the hard-boiled school of American novels. ![]()
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