- male, deceased (1959)
- Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 - March 26, 1959) was an author of crime stories and novels. His influence on modern crime fiction has...
- male, deceased (1961)
- Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894-January 10, 1961) was an American author of hardboiled detective novels and short stories. Among the enduring...
- male, deceased (1977)
- James Myers Thompson (Born September 27, 1906, Anadarko, Oklahoma Territory - Died April 7, 1977, Los Angeles, California) was an American writer...
- male, deceased (1977)
- James Mallahan Cain (July 1, 1892 - October 27, 1977) was an American journalist and novelist. Although Cain himself vehemently opposed labelling,...
- male, deceased (2004)
- Joseph Hansen was an American mystery-writer born in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Hansen wrote nearly 40 books in a variety of genres, but was best...
- male, 44 years old
- Richard Morgan (b. 1965) is a British science fiction author. Morgan studied history at Queens' College, Cambridge. After graduation he started...
- male, deceased (1988)
- Charles Ray Willeford III was an American writer. An author of fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism, Willeford is best known for...
- male, deceased (1975)
- Charles Williams (August 13, 1909 - ca. April 7, 1975) was an American writer of hardboiled crime fiction. He is regarded by critics as one of the...
- male, 56 years old
- Daniel Woodrell (born March 4 1953) is an American crime fiction writer. He has written eight novels, most of them set in the Missouri Ozarks....
- male, 70 years old
- James A. Crumley (born 12 October 1939 in Three Rivers, Texas) is the author of violent hardboiled crime novels and several volumes of short...
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