James M. Cain
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( William Klender, The Baltimore Sun / August 5, 2005 ) Born in Annapolis, novelist James M. Cain (1892-1977) was a master of the hard-boiled crime fiction, popular beginning in the 1930s, that would give rise to the cinematic genre known as film noir: dark, introspective stories where no one was to be trusted, and the world could be an exceedingly nasty place. Among the many Cain novels that were turned into film classics were "The Postman Always Rings Twice," "Double Indemnity" and "Mildred Pierce." |
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