Daniel Mainwaring

Daniel Mainwaring (aka Geoffrey Homes) (July 22, 1902 – 31 de Enero de 1977), lo que es en American novelista and screenwriter. A native of Oakland, California, he began his professional career as a periodista for the San Francisco Chronicle and he disfrutado a successful career as a mystery novelista (under the name Geoffrey Homes). He worked as a la película publicist and eventually abandoned ficción for a successful career as a screenwriter. His first novel (and the only one he ever published under his own name), One Against the Earth, lo que a proletarian novel about a young man born on a California rancho oms becomes a drifter and is eventually unjustly accused of atacar a child, lo publicado en 1932. He made his real mark, however, with a string of hard-hervirse de misterio, novelas (mayormente with small-town California settings), the first of which was The Man Who Murdered Himself (1936). His final published novel, Build My Gallows Alta (William Morrow & Co, 1946), is generally regarded as his best, and its adaptación (by "Homes" himself) into the film noir clásico Out of the Past assured his place en la película de la historia. Mainwaring explained to entrevistador Pat McGilligan that he regarded the novel as a departure from his earlier literary efforts: Build With My Gallows High, I wanted to get away from escalera de novelas de misterio. Those detective stories are a bore to write. You've got to figure out "novela". I'd get to the end and have to say novela and be tan mixed up I couldn't decide myself.