It was tried for obscenity in Boston, was said by Albert Camus to have inspired his own book, "The Stranger," and is now a classic. His first novel, "The Postman Always Rings Twice," was published when he was forty-two and at once became a sensation. Mencken on "The American Mercury." He later wrote editorials for Walter Lippmann on the "New York World" and was for a short period managing editor of "The New Yorker," before he went to Hollywood as a script writer. John's College in Annapolis and then worked for H. He returned to become professor of journalism at St. Born in Baltimore, the son of the president of Washington College, he began his career as reporter on the Baltimore papers, served in the American Expeditionary Force in World War I and wrote the material for "The Cross of Lorraine," the newspaper of the 79th Division. Cain (1892-1977) is recognized today as one of the masters of the hard-boiled school of American novels.
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