McCoy, Horace

Horace Stanley McCoy (1897 1955) was an American novelist whose gritty, hardboiled novels documented the hardships Americans faced during the Depression and post-war periods. McCoy grew up in Tennessee and Texas; after serving in the air force during World War I, he worked as a journalist, film actor, and screenplay writer, and is author of five novels including "They Shoot Horses, Don t They? "(1935) and the noir classic "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye "(1948). Though underappreciated in his own time, McCoy is now recognized as a peer of Dashiell Hammett and James Cain. He died in Beverly Hills, Calif...