Word: burnett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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IROX MAN-W. R. Burnett-Dial...
...Author Burnett's first book, Little Caesar, was about a Chicago gangster; his second is the tale of a prizefighter. He writes, not for men only, but primarily for men. Women play a small part in his stories and he writes always from and to a strictly masculine point of view...
...Author. Author William R. Burnett is the first U. S. writer to have his first two books selected by book-of-the-month club. Born in Springfield, Ohio, in 1899, he went to Miami Military Institute. Ohio State University (for one semester). He thought of becoming a prizefighter, an actor, a jazzbandsman. When he decided to be a writer, he realized that he had to get a job, became a statistician in Ohio's Department of Industrial Relations. He is married, lives in Los Angeles, is writing another novel, to be published next fall...