Category
page 1American Noir writers

Dashiell Hammett
American writer (1894–1961)
Frank Miller
American writer, artist, film director (born 1957)
Elmore Leonard
American novelist and screenwriter (1925–2013)
James Ellroy
American novelist, short story writer, essayist, memoirist (born 1948)

Dennis Lehane
novelist

James M. Cain
American novelist, short story writer, journalist (1892–1977)
Jim Thompson
American writer (1906–1977)
Cornell Woolrich
American author and screenwriter (1903–1968)
Ed Brubaker
American comic book writer and cartoonist

Dorothy B. Hughes
American writer (1904-1993)
David Goodis
Novelist, screenwriter (1917–1967)
Daniel Suarez
American writer
Charles Williams
American writer of hardboiled crime fiction (1909-1975)