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Horace McCoy
AuthorBooks · Second hand1897-1955
Horace Stanley McCoy was an American writer whose mostly hardboiled stories took place during the Great Depression. His best-known novel is They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935), which was made into a movie of the same name in 1969, fourteen years after McCoy's death.
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About Horace McCoy
Birth
1897
Death
1955
First book
1935
Years writing
91
Horace Stanley McCoy was an American writer whose mostly hardboiled stories took place during the Great Depression. His best-known novel is They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935), which was made into a movie of the same name in 1969, fourteen years after McCoy's death.
Horace McCoy was a prominent American writer whose work defined the hard-boiled genre during the Great Depression.
His most iconic novel, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, is an absolute benchmark of 20th-century literature.
In addition to being a novelist, McCoy had a prolific career as a screenwriter in the film industry.
His stories are typically set in Los Angeles and Hollywood, capturing the harshness of life in California.
Throughout his career, he published a total of 13 works that explore the darkest corners of the human condition.
