Actually, Ford Madox Ford is one of my favorite writers -- in
fact, I
usually prefer his work to that of his contemporary and
sometime-collaborator, Joseph Conrad, who is probably better
(relatively)
known because nearly every U.S. school system teaches at
least one Conrad
novel.
While FMFord apparently enjoyed the occasional popular novel,
he probably
would deny having any association to what we now call
hard-boiled writing.
But on close examination, a careful reader might find links
between Ford's
stylistic experiments and the hard-boiled writing of, say,
Hammett and
Chandler.
Uh, G.M. FOrd I know nothing about.--Duane
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