Horace McCoy

Horace McCoy

Personal Info

  • Known for

    Writing

  • Gender

    Male

  • Birthday

    1897-04-14

  • Day of Death

    1955-12-15 (58 years old)

  • Place of Birth

    Pegram, Tennessee, USA

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.

Known For

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