David Goodis
David Loeb Goodis (March 2, 1917 – January 7, 1967) was an was an American writer of crime fiction, noted for his prolific output of short stories and novels epitomizing the noir fiction genre. A native of Philadelphia, Goodis alternately resided there and in New York City and Hollywood during his professional years. Yet, throughout his life he maintained a deep identification with the city of his birth, Philadelphia. Goodis cultivated the skid row neighborhoods of his home town, using what he observed to craft his hard-boiled sagas of lives gone wrong, realized in dark portrayals of a blighted urban landscape teeming with criminal life and human despair.
“Despite his education, a combination of ethnicity (Jewish) and temperament allowed him to empathize with outsiders: the working poor, the unjustly accused, fugitives, criminals.”
Read more about David Goodis: Early Life, Pulp Magazines, Radio and Screenplays, Marriage and Divorce, Return To Philadelphia, The Fugitive and The Lawsuit, Influence, Bibliography, Filmography
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