James M. Cain

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James Mallahan Cain (July 1, 1892 – October 27, 1977) was an American writer and journalist.

Cain vehemently opposed naming, but he is often associated with American crime fiction's hardboiled school and is considered one of the roman noir's creators.

Several of his crime novels inspired hit films.

Scholastic Education

In 1898, the six-year-old Cain began attending a grade school in Annapolis. The boys' "impeccable grammar" and his early interest in literature were aided by an upbringing in a household with two literate parents. Cain's father, who was then the administrator of the Annapolis School Board, accepted his son's request to skip two grades from third to fifth. Cain later regretted the change, particularly as his classmates progressed puberty well ahead of him, although intellectually precocious. The elder Cains' outstanding attendance at St. John's College earned him the post of President of Washington College at the time, when Cain was 11 years old, they migrated to Chestertown, Maryland.

Cain's stay in Chestertown, Cain, recalls encountering Ike Newton, who introduced the young student to the "language of an uneducated but articulate individual." Biographer Roy Hoopes compares Cain's fascination with common speech to this encounter, comparing it to writers Jonathan Swift and Stephen Crane's experience. Newton's "vulgate" was credited to the emergence of his narrative style as a novelist, according to Cain. Cain was a "voracious" reader and intimate with Edgar Allan Poe, William Thackeray, James Fenimore Cooper, Alexander Dumas, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Robert Louis Stevenson by the age of 12. Cain was allowed to attend preparatory classes at Washington College, where he attended courses with youths four years his senior.

Cain, who was 13 years old at the time, had rejected the Catholic Church's, especially the confessional, calling it "mumbo-jumbo" and had devised his own personal interpretation of "life and God" in Chestertown, Cain.

Though he was named "one of the best students on campus," his Greek language courses were weak; his Greek grades were "mediocre"; he attended his Greek classes in "science, chemistry, and Latin," but he preferred history and literature. He also demonstrated an aptitude for mathematics, but found the subject unchallenging. Cain earned his Artium Baccalaureus degree just before his eighteenth birthday. Neither Cain nor his immediate family had any plans for their future when they both graduated from Washington College.

Early employment: 1910-1917

Cain began working as a leadger clerk for a public utility for a brief period of time before serving for two years as a road inspector for the State of Maryland, moving from Baltimore to live independently. Cain was inspired to consider a career in writing after his lucid and concise reports on operations. He went to local brothels with male friends in his late teens (Cain says he did not sleep with the prostitutes) and had a number of affairs with older women.

He accepted a teaching position at a high school in Vienna, Maryland, in 1913, and although he enjoyed performing as a singer at community gatherings, he returned to teach. When he told his family that he wanted to pursue a career as a professional operatic singer, his mother, a trained soprano, vetoed him: "You have no voice, no looks, no stage person."

Not one!

You have some musical skills, but that is not enough. Undeterred Cain, who is just a "good, barroom bass"—moves to Washington, D. C., to enroll in a voice training course. He spent a brief time in “office to office” insurance salesmanship for the General Accident Company, but never sold a single policy.

Cain, who suffered as a Victrola salesman, gave up on his ambitions of becoming a writer and turned to becoming a writer, receiving his parents' blessings after quitting a low-paying career as a Victrola salesman. Cain's postgraduate time was not "misspent," according to biographer Roy Hoopes: "misspent" was not "misspent": the Cain's postgraduate years were not "misspent": not "misspent": not "misspent":

Cain returned home to Chestertown in 1914 and was hired as an English tutor at Washington College, where he obtained a master's degree in drama. He tried to write fiction for years, but there were no success. In 1917, he was still living at home and unidentified. When the United States first entered World War I, he accepted a job as a math teacher and registered for the draft but was initially rejected for respiratory disorders.

Personal life

In 1919, Cain married Mary Clough. He divorced him, and Elina Sjösted Tyszecka married him soon after. Cain never had children of his own, but he was close to Elina's two children from his previous marriage. Cain married film actress Aileen Pringle in 1944, but the union was tense and ended in a bitter divorce two years later. Florence Macbeth's fourth marriage did not last until her death in 1966.

At the age of 85, Cain continued writing up to his death. Many books from the late 1940s to present, but no one from his earlier books achieved the financial and cultural success of his earlier books.

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Career in Journalism: 1917-1935

In 1917, the Baltimore American hired Cain as a cub reporter and assigned him to a police unit. Cain's first article, describing a local drowning, prompted the copy editor that he was immediately promoted to big assignments relating to the war effort. Cain praised his service as a math instructor but resigned soon to return to journalism. In early 1918, The Baltimore Sun recruited him.

Cain, a proponent of American war propaganda, was accepted into the army in June 1918 and began basic training at Camp Meade, Maryland.

Career

In at least three of his books, including the opera, Serenade, about an American opera singer who loses his voice and, after living part of his childhood, a young businesswoman's life south of the border, re-enters the United States unlawfully with a Mexican prostitute; and Career in C Major, a short semi-comic book about an aspiring opera singer who unexpectedly finds a stronger voice than she does; Music is vital in the life of the main character in his book The Moth. Florence Macbeth, Cain's fourth wife, was a retired opera performer.

Cain spent many years in Hollywood writing screenplays, but his name appears in the credits of only two films, Stand Up and Fight (1939) and Gypsy Wildcat (1944), for which he is one of three credited screenwriters. Cain's (1938): Cain received a nomination for his "additional dialogue," as well as other film credits.

After reading his article about Walter Lippmann in The Washington Post in 1975, Roy Hoopes contacted Cain. Hoopes conducted a series of interviews with Cain before his death in 1977, which turned into a biography of the author in 1984.

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