Personal info
Known for
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
6 / Dec / 1903 (121 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- George Hopley
- William Irish
- Корнелл Джордж Хопли Вулрич
- Уильям Айриш
- Cornell George Hopley Woolrich
Cornell Woolrich
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Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich (4 December 1903 – 25 September 1968) was an American novelist and short story writer who sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley.
His biographer, Francis Nevins Jr., rated Woolrich the fourth best crime writer of his day, behind only Dashiell Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner and Raymond Chandler. A check of film titles reveals that more film noir screenplays were adapted from works by Woolrich than any other crime novelist, and many of his stories were adapted during the 1940s for Suspense and oth...