Aniversário de Cornell Woolrich

04 de dezembro de 1903 - 25 de Setembro de 1968 (Nopva York)

Hoje comemoramos o aniversário de Cornell Woolrich, escritor conhecido pela ficção fatalista, retratando o mundo completamente indiferente à humanidade. Em suas próprias palavras, "primeiro você sonha, então você morre."

Famoso pela literatura policial na década de 30, transformou-se em um dos melhores escritores do gênero, encontrando espaço ao escrever para revistas como "Argosy", "Black Mask" e "Thrilling Mystery", muitas vezes usando o pseudônimo William Irish.

Suas obras foram adaptadas para o cinema noir mais que a maioria dos escritores conhecidos do gênero e muitas de suas histórias foram adaptadas para programas de rádio no gênero suspense e dramático nos anos 40, fase considerada como seu maior legado, até 1948. 

Mesmo deixando de escrever na década de 50, novas edições de sua obra foram publicadas, originando clássicos do cinema como Rear Window (Janela indiscreta) e The Bride Wore Black (A noiva estava de preto).

Obras:

• Cover Charge (1926)
• Children of the Ritz (1927)
• Times Square (1929)
• A Young Man's Heart (1930)
• The Time of Her Life (1931)
• Manhattan Love Song (1932)
• The Bride Wore Black (1940)
• The Black Curtain (1941)
• Marihuana (1941, as William Irish)
• Black Alibi (1942)
• Phantom Lady (1942, as William Irish)
• The Black Angel (1943, based on his 1935 story Murder in Wax)
• The Black Path of Fear (1944)
• After Dinner Story (1944, as William Irish)
• Deadline at Dawn (1944, as William Irish)
• Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1945, as George Hopley)
• Waltz into Darkness (1947, as William Irish)
• Rendezvous in Black (1948)
• I Married a Dead Man (1948, as William Irish)
• Savage Bride (1950)
• Fright (1950, as George Hopley)
• You'll Never See Me Again (1951)
• Strangler's Serenade (1951, as William Irish)
• Hotel Room (1958)
• Death is My Dancing Partner (1959)
• The Doom Stone (1960, previously serialized in Argosy 1939)
• Into the Night (1987, an unfinished manuscript finished by Lawrence Block)

Adaptações para o cinema

• Convicted (1938) (story Face Work)
• Street of Chance (1942) (novel The Black Curtain)
• The Leopard Man (1943) (novel Black Alibi)
• Phantom Lady (1944) (novel)
• The Mark of the Whistler (1944) (story Dormant Account)
• Deadline at Dawn (1946) (novel)
• Black Angel (1946) (novel)
• The Chase (1946) (novel The Black Path of Fear)
• Fall Guy (1947) (story Cocaine)
• The Guilty (1947) (story He Looked Like Murder)
• Fear in the Night (1948) (story Nightmare)
• The Return of the Whistler (1948) (story All at Once, No Alice)
• I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948) (story)
• Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948) (novel)
• The Window (1949) (story The Boy Cried Murder)
• No Man of Her Own (1950) (novel I Married a Dead Man)
• El pendiente (1951) (story The Death Stone) directed by León Klimovsky.
• Si muero antes de despertar (1952) (story If I Should Die Before I Wake) directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen.
• No abras nunca esa puerta (1952) (stories Somebody on the Phone and Humming Bird Comes Home) directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen.
• Rear Window (1954) (story It Had to Be Murder) directed by Alfred Hitchcock
• Obsession (1954) (story Silent as the Grave)
• Nightmare (1956) (story)
• The Bride Wore Black (1968) (novel) directed by François Truffaut
• Mississippi Mermaid (1969) (novel Waltz Into Darkness) directed by François Truffaut
• Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972) (novel Rendezvous in Black)
• Union City (1980) (story The Corpse Next Door)
• I Married a Shadow (1983) (novel I Married a Dead Man)
• Cloak & Dagger (1984) (story The Boy Who Cried Murder)
• Mrs. Winterbourne (1996) (story I Married a Dead Man)
• Original Sin (2001) (novel Waltz Into Darkness)
• Four O'Clock (2006) (story Three O'Clock)

Fontes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_Woolrich

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0941280/bio

http://www.detnovel.com/Woolrich.html

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