Woolrich had a very pragmatic reason for using the name
'William Irish.' During the 1940s, he was producing so much
material that his publishers were concerned that 'Cornell
Woolrich' was going to flood the market. Hence, William Irish
was born. Woolrich used another pseudonym occasionally:
George Hopley (for such novels as 'Night has a Thousand
Eyes'
(1945) and 'Fright' (1950). 'George' was Woolrich's middle
name, and
'Hopley' was taken from his father's full name: Genaro
Hopley-Woolrich.
David Schmid
--On Tue, May 11, 2004 6:38 AM -0700 Ed Lynskey <
e_lynskey@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've been reading the Tom Nolan biography of Ross
Macdonald and
> ran across a reference to William Irish, who like
RM, published
> in the early MANHUNT issues. In the archives, I see
that
> William Irish was a Cornell Woolrich pseudonym. I
wondered why.
> Did established crime/mystery fiction writers use
assumed names
> to publish under in pulps, like MANHUNT?
>
> Ed Lynskey
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