>
>
>Oh, and as far as English publishers beating US ones,
doesn't that still
>happen? For instance, aren't the "true firsts" of
many Connelly and
>Ellroy novels the Brit editions? (I'm not implying
the US editions are
>"abridged editions" like The Fifth Grave was of
Solomon's Vineyards.)
>
>Mark
>
Our very own Jason Starr was published first in the UK, after
his first novel IIRC.
In the past, the UK harbored HB/noir novels that American
publishers refused mainly for bad reasons. One famous example
is Horace McCoy ' "No Pockets in a Shroud" written in 1935
and which did not find an American publisher: it was finally
first published in 1937 in the UK and much later in the USA
(1948) in a revised version. "This is Dynamite" (1953) a
novel based on one of his scripts was refused by American
publishers because McCoy refused to alter his text at their
request; it was accepted by Georges Duhamel in France who
published a translation in 1953. It will finally be published
in 1959 in the USA, with the title: "Corruption City". (note:
McCoy was an acclaimed writer in France, mainly because of
his "They Shoot Horses, Don't They" published there by
Gallimard in 1946).
Another case was Don Tracy's "How Sleeps the Beast" (1937)
which is mainly based on racial hatery and has a famous
brutal lynching scene, was first refused by American
publishers but found a British publisher.
Chester Himes was pushed to the HB mysteries by Georges
Duhamel at the time when Himes was living in France. So his
six novels (1958 to 1962) with his Black cops were first
published, translated, in France, plus a non-series seventh
(but this anecdote is maybe more geographical than editorial,
except that Himes was then on a low pace with his American
publications ).
There are more.
E.Borgers Hard-Boiled Mysteries http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6384
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