Cain: The Biography of James M. Cain

“I never knew a writer who regarded [writing] as anything but a refined form of crucifixion. —James M. Cain© Although Cain was formerly dismissed as merely a hardboiled writer, his finest works—The Postman Always Rings Twice, Mildred Pierce, and Double Indemnity—arenow considered enduring classics of American literature.© In this book Roy Hoopes gives as full a picture of the man and his life as will ever be written. The work was awarded an “Edgar by the Mystery Writers of America.©