Cornell Woolrich

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American author and screenwriter (1903-1968)

United States WritersLived 1903 to 1968 · aged 64

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Cornell George Hopley Woolrich was an American novelist and short story writer. He sometimes used the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley. His biographer, Francis Nevins Jr., rated Woolrich the fourth best crime writer of his day, behind Dashiell Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner and Raymond Chandler.

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2022Edgar Awards

1975Best Crime Novel in Swedish Translation

1954Grand Prix de Littérature Policière

Connected to Cornell 6

Mirtha LegrandAlso in El pendiente (1951)

Robert LowellAlso in I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948)

Dan DuryeaAlso in Black Angel (1946)

Dora DollAlso in Obsession (1954)

John MitchumAlso in Nightmare (1956)

Al BridgeAlso in Deadline at Dawn (1946)

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