W. R. Burnett, author of thirty-four novels and a collaborator on screenplays for sixty motion pictures, distinguished himself by writing several prototypical works on the American underworld and gang...
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An author of Westerns and a successful screenwriter, W. R. Burnett is best known for his hard-boiled crime fiction. With the popular and critical success of the novels Little Caesar (1929) and The Asp...
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W(illiam) R(iley) Burnett
