Cornell Woolrich
Cornell George Hopley Woolrich (/ˈwʊlrɪtʃ/ WUUL-ritch; 4 Desember 1903 – 25 September 1968) adalah seorang novelis dan penulis cerpen Amerika Serikat. Ia terkadang memakai pseudonim William Irish dan George Hopley.
Cornell Woolrich | |
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| Lahir | Cornell George Hopley Woolrich 4 Desember 1903 New York City |
| Meninggal | 25 September 1968 (umur 64) New York City |
| Nama pena | William Irish, George Hopley |
| Pekerjaan | Penulis (novelis) |
| Kebangsaan | Amerika Serikat |
| Almamater | Universitas Columbia |
| Pasangan | Violet Virginia Blackton
(m. 1930; berpisah 1933) |
Biografernya, Francis Nevins Jr., menyatakan bahwa Woolrich adalah penulis kejahatan terbaik keempat pada masanya, setelah Dashiell Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner dan Raymond Chandler.
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- Nevins, Francis M. Jr. (1988), First You Dream, Then You Die, Mysterious Press.
- Duggan, E. (1999) 'Writing in the darkness: the world of Cornell Woolrich' CrimeTime 2.6 pp. 113–126.
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- Breen, Jon L. "Dark Deeds: The Mystery of Cornell Woolrich." The Weekly Standard (March 8, 2004), 31-33.
- Lane, Joel. "Mansions of Fear: The Dark Houses of Cornell Woolrich". Wormwood No 3 (Autumn 2004), 22-32.
- Phelps, Donald. "Cinema Gris: Woolrich/Neil's Black Angel." Film Comment Vol. 36 No. 1 (Jan-Feb 2000), 64-69.
- Rosenbaum, Jonathan. "Black Window: Cornell Woolrich." Film Comment Vol. 20 No. 5 (Sept-Oct 1984), 36-38.
- Thompson, Currie K. "Two Takes on Gender in Argentine Film Noir." Studies in Hispanic Cinemas Vol. 4 No.2 (2007), 121-130. (analyzes Si muero antes de despertar/If I Should Die Before I Wake [1952], based on a Cornell Woolrich story)
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- Karya Cornell Woolrich di Faded Page (Canada)
- Cornell Woolrich di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)
- Radio adaptations of Cornell Woolrich's stories on the CBS radio show Suspense
- (Inggris) Karya atau profil mengenai Cornell Woolrich di perpustakaan (katalog WorldCat)
- Cornell Woolrich Papers at the Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New York, NY
- "Cornell Woolrich and the Tough-Man Tradition of American Crime Fiction" by Christine Photinos (Clues: A Journal of Detection 28.2, 2010)
- "The melodrama star as a noir film heroine: The Trace of Some Lips (1952)" by Roberto Carlos Ortiz (article in Spanish about a Mexican adaptation of "Collared", by Cornell Woolrich)
- Finding aid to Cornell Woolrich papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.