Noir fiction readers will want to take Fires of Youth by
Charles Williams off of their wish list. I found the
following entry in the U.S. Copyright Office database: "Fires
of youth. By Charles Williams, pseud. of James Lincoln
Collier." The original copyright registration date is January
2, 1960. In the past, this novel has been attributed to
Charles Williams, author of A Touch of Death and other crime
novels.
Sidenote: it's my understanding this book was originally
published in England under the title: Young and Sensitive,
with the byline: Don Robson, and was Winner of the 1963
Arthur Koestler Award, an award given to stimulate creative
activity among prisoners. The judges
(Henry Green, A.D. Peters, J.B. Priestley, V.S. Pritchett,
and Philip Toynbee) wrote: "We believe that it will be
recognized as a work of outstanding merit in its own right,
independently of the special circumstances in which it was
written." It was later reprinted in 1968, in England under
the title: Fires of Youth, with the byline: James Lincoln
Collier, with a foreword entitled: "About a Curious Case of
Plagiarism."
Later, George the Librarian
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