James M. Cain

James Mallahan Cain was born in 1892 in Annapolis, Maryland, the son of a college president. He worked as a journalist, a professor, a screenwriter, and a World War I soldier before publishing The Postman Always Rings Twice at the age of forty-two. The novel was an immediate sensation, selling millions of copies despite being banned in several cities and in Canada for its sexual content. He followed it with Double Indemnity and Mildred Pierce, cementing his reputation as the master of American noir fiction. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Postman Always Rings Twice.