> Can anyone give me the stats on Day Keene--what were
his birth and death
> dates, what are his most highly regarded novels, how
do you spell his
> real name, &c.?
According to Mesplede/Schleret's _SN: Voyage Au Bout De La
Noire_ :
Day Keene was born in Chicago (03/28/1904), and died in North
Hollywood,
CA (01/09/1969). Keene was his mother's family name, his real
name was
Gunnar Hjerstedt (how do you spell *that* one ?). Left school
at 17 to
join the Chautaquas, some kind of itinerary shows.
_Chautaqua_ is the
name of a semi-autobiographical novel (1960).
He's written theater scripts in the '30s, then for the radio,
the pulps
in the '40s, and finally paperbacks (beginning in 1949). Some
of his
novels have been published in France before the US.
He's written a few Westerns, and more than 40 mystery novels.
Most
feature a classic 'femme fatale', and are classic '50s noir
fiction. His
'most highly regarded novels' (I like all the ones I've read
!) are,
according to my reference books :
- My flesh is sweet (1951)
- Sleep with the devil (1954)
- Joy House (1954)
- Forests of the night (1956)
Laurent
_______
"I'll read any private eye book and love it." (After Fred
Willard)
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