Grand Prix de Littérature Policière
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Cornell Woolrich
コーネル・ウールリッチ
Kōneru Wūritchi
Aliases:
Cornell George Hopley Woolrich
Pen Names:
William Irish（Pen name used for crime fiction）,
George Hopley（Pen name used for crime fiction）
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1903-12-04 （New York City）
- Died
- 1968-09-25 （New York City） age 64
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Roman Catholic Baptized in 1968
- Residence History
- New York City → Mexico → Hollywood → Hotel Marseilles, New York → Hotel Franconia, New York → Sheraton-Russell, New York
Career
- Occupations
- novelist, short-story writer
- Active Years
- 1926-1968
- Memberships
- Mystery Writers of America
- Influenced By
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Influenced
- Raymond Chandler
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia University | — | — | — | 1921-1926 | United States |
Columbia University
Period:
1921-1926
Country:
United States
Left without graduating after publication of first novel Cover Charge
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Edgar Award | — | Best Motion Picture Screenplay | Mystery Writers of America | 受賞 |
Edgar Award
1950
Category:
Best Motion Picture Screenplay
Organization:
Mystery Writers of America
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Best Crime Novel in Swedish Translation
1 appearances
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Edition 5 (1975) Winner
Works
Major Works
The Bride Wore Black
1940 crime novelA woman's quest for revenge after her husband's death
revengefate
Adaptations
- [film] The Bride Wore Black / François Truffaut (1968)
Phantom Lady
1942 crime novelA woman fights to prove an alibi
wrongful accusationsuspense
Adaptations
- [film] Phantom Lady / Robert Siodmak (1944)
It Had to Be Murder (Rear Window)
1942 short storyA man witnesses murder from his window
voyeurismparanoia
Adaptations
- [film] Rear Window / Alfred Hitchcock (1954)
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
1945 novelA man with precognitive abilities
precognitiondoom
Adaptations
- [film] Night Has a Thousand Eyes / John Farrow (1948)
Bibliography
- Cover Charge
- Children of the Ritz
- Times Square
- A Young Man's Heart
- The Time of Her Life
- Manhattan Love Song
- The Bride Wore Black
- The Black Curtain
- Marihuana
- Black Alibi
- Phantom Lady
- The Black Angel
- The Black Path of Fear
- Deadline at Dawn
- Night Has a Thousand Eyes
- Waltz Into Darkness
- Rendezvous in Black
- I Married a Dead Man
- Savage Bride
- Fright
- You'll Never See Me Again
- Strangler's Serenade
- Eyes That Watch You
- Bluebeard's Seventh Wife
- Death is My Dancing Partner
- The Doom Stone
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- noir stylepulp fictionsuspense-driven
- Recurring Motifs
- inescapable fateparanoialonelinesschain of crime
Health
-
diabetes晩年Led to failing eyesight, gangrene, and leg amputation
-
alcoholism晩年Accelerated physical and mental decline
-
gangrene1968年初頭Resulted in leg amputation
Legacy
Pioneering American crime and noir writer, fourth greatest after Hammett, Gardner, Chandler. Known for numerous film adaptations by Hitchcock, Truffaut, etc. Bequeathed estate to Columbia University.
Archives
- Columbia University Libraries
In Popular Culture
- Basis for Hitchcock's Rear Window
- Basis for Truffaut's The Bride Wore Black
Trivia
- Lived with mother for decades
- Declined sharply after mother's death
- Brief unconsummated marriage annulled
- Closeted gay man with inner conflicts
- Converted to Catholicism late in life
- Recluse in seedy New York hotels