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James M. Cain
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American novelist, short story writer, journalist (1892–1977)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1892
- Died
- 1977
- Works
- 110
Top works
- פרפרי אהבה
- Murder on the Railways
- El carter sempre truca dues vegades
- An American Authors' Authority
- A subtreasury of American humor
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Film & TV
Writing · Annapolis, Maryland, USA
James Mallahan Cain (1892–1977) was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter. He is considered one of the founders of the hardboiled crime genre.
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1971-12-21
Discography
- Le Baptême1997
- Je dis aime1999
- Les Âmes de Mogador2003
- Labo -M-2003
- Qui de nous deux2003
- Mister Mystère2009
- Îl2012
- Louis, Matthieu, Joseph & Anna Chedid2015
- La B.O²-M-2015
- Lettre infinie2019
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 52
- Total plays
- 852
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 85,107x
- Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations
· 1976 · cited 68,300x
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,877x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,538x
- Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.
· 1988 · cited 31,718x
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Quotes
- “We only have two kinds of weather in California, magnificent and unusual.”
- “They threw me off the hay truck about noon.”
- “I kissed her. Her eyes were shining up at me like two blue stars. It was like being in church.”
- “Stealing a man’s wife, that’s nothing, but stealing his car, that’s larceny.”
- “Just you and me and the road.”
- “He might be asleep, but even asleep he looked like he knew more than most guys awake.”
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Key facts
- Born
- James Mallahan Cain , ( 1892-07-01 ) July 1, 1892, Annapolis, Maryland , U.S.
- Died
- October 27, 1977 (1977-10-27) (aged 85), University Park, Maryland , U.S.
- Occupation
- Novelist, journalist
- Alma mater
- Washington College
- Genre
- Crime
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
James Mallahan Cain (July 1, 1892 – October 27, 1977) was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter. He is widely regarded as a progenitor of the hardboiled school of American crime fiction.
His novels The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), Double Indemnity (1936), Serenade (1937), Mildred Pierce (1941) and The Butterfly (1947) brought him critical acclaim and an immense popular readership in America and abroad.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “James M. Cain” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.