Horace McCoy
Personal Info
Know For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1897-04-14 (58 years old)
Deathday
1955-12-15
Place of Birth
Pegram, Tennessee, USA
Also known As
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Horace McCoy
Biography
Horace Stanley McCoy (1897–1955) was an American novelist whose gritty, hardboiled novels documented the hardships Americans faced during the Depression and post-war periods. McCoy grew up in Tennessee and Texas; after serving in the air force during World War I, he worked as a journalist, film actor, and screenplay writer, and is author of five novels including They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1935) and the noir classic Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1948). Though underappreciated in his own time, McCoy is now recognized as a peer of Dashiell Hammett and James Cain. He died in Beverly Hills, California, in 1955.
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1954
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