It would be gratifying if people who engage in discussions
about
literature in English of whatever genre would use the English
language
with a decent minimum of skill.
How can a woman author write, or for that matter, do
anything, after
she has been hard-boiled.
If the writer means "women authors of hard-boiled detective
fiction" she
should say that. This imbecilic type of discussion has
already disrupted
and decimated at least one other mystery list.
I would suggest that the a major requirement of a true
aficionado of
Dashiell Hammett, father of the Maltese Falcon, the eponymous
rara avis
of this list, would be the lack of whining over whether men
or women
write better. Surely Hammett knew that men and women were NOT
the
same, which has nothing to do with one being 'better' than
the other.
If he didn't Lillian Hellman sure as hell would have reminded
him!
Alfred Kinsey
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