James M. Cain (1892–1977)

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1. Raymond Chandler

   Author of The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The Little Sister

2. James M. Cain

   Author of The Postman Always Rings Twice, Mildred Pierce, Galatea

3. Dashiell Hammett

   Author of The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest

4. Jim Thompson

   Author of The Killer Inside Me, Pop. 1280, After Dark, My Sweet

5. Henry James

   Author of The Ambassadors, The Bostonians, What Maisie Knew

6. James Ellroy

   Author of American Tabloid, Brown's Requiem, Blood on the Moon

7. Kenneth Millar

   Author of The Moving Target, The Galton Case, The Goodbye Look

8. Graham Greene

   Author of Our Man in Havana, The Honorary Consul, A Sort of Life

9. Patricia Highsmith

   Author of The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley's Game, Ripley Under Water

10. Paul Frederic Bowles

    Author of The Sheltering Sky, The Sheltering Sky / Let It Come Down / The Spider's House, Collected Stories and Later Writings

11. Robert Polito

    Author of Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s: The Postman Always Rings Twice / They Shoot Horses, Don't They? / Thie, Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s

12. Cornell Woolrich

    Author of The Bride Wore Black, Rendezvous in black, Phantom lady

13. David Goodis

    Author of Black Friday, The Blonde on the Street Corner, Night Squad

14. Sinclair Lewis

    Author of Dodsworth, Kingsblood Royal, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth (Library of America #133)

15. Charles Willeford

    Author of Miami Blues, New Hope for the Dead, The Burnt Orange Heresy

16. Vladimir Nabokov

    Author of Vladimir Nabokov : Novels and Memoirs 1941-1951 : The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Bend Sinister, Speak, Memory (Libra, Nabokov: Novels, 1969-1974 (Library of America)

17. Mark Twain

    Author of The Gilded Age, Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays: Volume 2, Twain: The Gilded Age and Later Novels: The Gilded Age / The American Claimant / Tom Sawyer Abroad / Tom Sawyer, Detecti

18. Nathanael West

    Author of Miss Lonelyhearts & the Day of the Locust, The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West : Novels and Other Writings : The Dream Life of Balso Snell / Miss Lonelyhearts / A Cool Million / The Da

19. John Steinbeck

    Author of The Grapes of Wrath | The Harvest Gypsies | The Log from the Sea of Cortez | The Long Valley, In Dubious Battle | Of Mice and Men | The Pastures of Heaven | To a God Unknown | Tortilla Flat

20. Edith Wharton

    Author of Edith Wharton: Vol.2 Collected Stories 1911-1937 (Library of America), Edith Wharton: Vol 1. Collected Stories:1891-1910 (Library of America)