To document further the data about James E. Gunn, here's what
I found as additional info in a dictionary of authors by
Claude Mesplede:
-James Edward Gunn (born in San Francisco in 1920- d.1966)
wrote DEADLIER THAN THE MALE (1942) as an exercise for a
creativity class This Gunn never did any SF and could be
confused with his homonym James Edwin Gunn born in 1923 who
started to publish in 1949 and was a SF writer.
- James Edward Gunn, spotted by Hollywood after the huge
success of his book "Deadlier..", made a career as
scriptwriter. A curio: he adapted Gypsy Rose Lee's mystery
novel THE G-STRINGS MURDERS
(she was an emblematic stripper during these days) for the
screen in a film by William Wellman, LADY OF BURLESQUE(1943).
As I mentioned earlier in a post about Goodis in Hollywood,
Gunn participated also to the script of THE UNFAITHFUL (film
by Vincent Sherman
-1947) at the same time as Goodis (but not working together).
Until 1959, he collaborated to a total of about 10 films for
Warner, Universal and Columbia ( such as: "All I desire"
-1953). He died in September 1966.
Note: GR Lee's novel was written with the help of a ghost
writer, but I do not remember who and cannot find the
reference in my papers (tribute to aging?).
E.Borgers HARD-BOILED MYSTERIES (with a new chapter: Nippon
Noir) http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6384
At 23:08 05-11-02 GMT, you wrote:
> I figure that James Gunn, the author, just about has
to be the same
James Gunn
>who wrote a lot of SF novels (I first encountered him
in the
>SF magazines long, long ago) and who's also
well-known in
>academic circles. His series of anthologies that
spans the
>history of SF is a great starting point for any
collection.
>But after reading Deadlier than the Male, I looked at
his
>official bibliography, and it's not there. Maybe I
was
>wrong. Maybe it's not the same guy. The story I
heard
>somewhere or other was that Gunn wrote the book while
he was
>a college student. It was later made into a movie
under a
>different title. Does anybody know the straight
story
>behind all this?
>
>Bill Crider
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