If David Goodis (1917-1967) is not a household name, this may be due, in part, to the kind of households he wrote about. His characters tend to live on the wrong side of the tracks, socialize on skid ...

Mugs, cons, dames. Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall. Noir from the '40s and '50s. This is the stuff from which classic dark dreams are made. David Goodis was prolific. He died young (age 49 in 1967) but ...

Humphrey Bogart's face is swathed in bandages, but his psychological wounds run much deeper. Bogart is on the lam in San Francisco in Delmer Daves' "Dark Passage," a typical scenario in the world of ...

If, like me, you discovered David Goodis through the 1980s Black Lizard reprints of his novels, Philippe Garnier’s “Goodis: A Life in Black and White” (Black Pool Productions: 216 pp., $25 paper) has ...

Philippe Garnier’s Goodis, La Vie en Noir et Blanc, an investigation into the life and times of novelist and screenwriter David Goodis, was published in France in 1984. Oddly, no U.S. publisher saw ...

The writers of the literary and film genre that came to be known as “noir” were a decidedly quirky group — heavy emphasis on alcoholism, troubled relationships, and general bad luck. It went with the ...

David Loeb Goodis (March 2, 1917 – January 7, 1967) was an American writer of crime fiction noted for his output of short stories and novels in the noir fiction genre. Born in Philadelphia, Goodis ...

The elements of noir are simple—you can reduce them to David Goodis book titles. In the late ’30s, the Philadelphia author began writing the first of his 18 novels, all of whose names evoke blood and ...

Nightfall, directed in 1956 by the estimable Jacques Tourneur from a Stirling Silliphant–sanitized David Goodis novel, and showing for a week in an impeccable print, is not only a nifty late noir but ...

DAVID GOODIS is the quintessential hard-boiled writer, someone for whom noir was not just an aesthetic but a way of life. He was born in Philadelphia in 1917, graduated from Temple University with ...