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Early employment: 1910–1917. After moving to Baltimore to live independently, Cain engaged in desultory employment, working briefly as a ledger clerk for a public utility, then serving for two years as a road inspector for the State of Maryland.
Jun 27, 2024 · James M. Cain was a novelist whose violent, sexually obsessed, and relentlessly paced melodramas epitomized the “hard-boiled” school of writing that flourished in the United States in the 1930s and ’40s. He was ranked with Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler as one of the masters of the genre.
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- October 27, 1977
- July 1, 1892
- The Postman Always Rings Twice.
- Double Indemnity.
- Mildred Pierce.
- The Cocktail Waitress.
James M. Cain is an internationally acclaimed American novelist whose lurid, violent, sexually charged and relentlessly paced melodramas about crime and desperation epitomized the so-called 'hard-boiled' school of writing that flourished in the United States in the 1930s and ’40s.
- The Postman Always Rings Twice James M. Cain.
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