Woolrich, Cornell

From the 1930s until his death in 1968, Cornell Woolrichriveted the reading public with his mystery, suspense, and horror stories. Classic films like Hitchcock'sRear Windowand Trauffaut'sThe Bride Wore Blackand novels likeNight has a Thousand EyesandThe Black Angelearned Woolrich epithets like "the twentieth century's Edgar Allen Poe" and "the father of noir."