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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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Birth
1897
Death
1955
First book
1935
Years writing
91
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.