At 10:34 AM 6/30/00 -0400, William Denton wrote:
>
>Who are Wolfson, Bardin, Gresham, and Stevens? Maybe
you could post one
>of them? Or, for someone we've probably all read,
maybe Goodis or
>Thompson.
>
>
I think you probably do
remember William Gresham, who I believe was the author of
_Nightmare Alley_, the hardboiled carny classic. He also
wrote a rather interesting biography of Houdini....or at
least I liked it when I was a kid.
According to Fred Pohl's
autobiography, Gresham could be an extreme jerk and was prone
to take out his personal frustrations on everyone surrounding
him. As I recall, he ended up a suicide. Certainly _NA_,
though not an "artistic" book, is just about as dark and
tough as anything ever written.
James
James Michael Rogers
jetan@ionet.net
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