A Life at the Edge [Hardcover]

William F. Nolan (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: St Martins Pr; 1st edition edition (April 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312922817
• ISBN-13: 978-0312922818
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.2 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,793,067 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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With 85 books to his credit, plus hundreds of scripts, articles and short stories embracing a dozen genres, William F. Nolan is an official Living Legend (voted that honor by the International Horror Guild).
As a noted pulp historian, he is a recognized authority on Black Mask, Dashiell Hammett, and "Max Brand" (Frederick Faust). Nolan has edited six collections of Faust tales, has written Max Brand: Western Giant, and is the author of the forthcoming biography King of the Pulps: The Man Who Was Max Brand. Nolan's historical anthology, The Black Mask Boys, is the key work on the legendary magazine - and he's written three books on Dashiell Hammett, plus several pieces on the early pulp fiction of his longtime pal, Ray Bradbury.
Nolan states: "I began my fiction career [13 novels and 185 stories] too late for the pulps, but I did have letters printed in Planet Stories and Famous Fantastic Mysteries - and I grew up reading Argosy and Weird Tales."
Recently voted a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to Dark Fantasy, Nolan is currently at work on ten new books. His most famous creations, Logan's Run, is now out in comic-book format from Bluewater Productions - and a new mega-budget film version is due from Warner Bros. in 2012.
Nolan lives in Vancouver, Washington, with an apartment full of books, pulp magazines, and stuffed animals.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Hammett: From private eye to writer, April 30, 2000

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This review is from: Hammett: A life at the edge (Hardcover)

Hammett based his private eye stories on his own adventures as a private eye and invented the American private eye stories. But his life changed when he met Hellmann and during the red scare he suffered for what he believed in. William F. Nolan examines his complex life and what made Hammett an excellent writer and a tragic figure.