Cornell Woolrich

Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich (Kornel Vulrič; 4. decembar, 1903. – 25. septembar, 1968.) bio je američki pisac. Woolrich je ponekad objavljivao pod pseudonimima William Irish i George Hopley.

Njegov biograf, Francis Nevins Jr., ga naziva jednim od najboljih pisaca kriminalističkih romana svog vremena. Mnogi noir filmovi su snimljeni prema njegovim romanima, a tokom 1940-ih su brojne njegove priče priređivane za kriminalističke radio drame.

Woolrich je bi gej i prilično se promiskuitetno ponašao u svojoj mladosti.^[1] Godine 1930. oženio se Violetom Virginijom Blackton (1910-65), ali su se rastavili tri meseca kasnije, a brak im je poništen 1933.

Romani

• Cover Charge (1926)
• Children of the Ritz (1927)
• Times Square (1929)
• A Young Man's Heart (1930)
• The Time of Her Life (1931)
• Manhattan Love Song (1932)
• The Bride Wore Black (1940)
• The Black Curtain (1941)
• Marihuana (1941, kao William Irish)
• Black Alibi (1942)
• Phantom Lady (1942, kao William Irish)
• The Black Angel (1943)
• The Black Path of Fear (1944)
• After Dinner Story (1944, kao William Irish)
• Deadline at Dawn (1944, kao William Irish)
• Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1945, kao George Hopley)
• Waltz into Darkness (1947, kao William Irish)
• Rendezvous in Black (1948)
• I Married a Dead Man (1948, kao William Irish)
• Savage Bride (1950)
• Fright (1950, kao George Hopley)
• You'll Never See Me Again (1951)
• Strangler's Serenade (1951, kao William Irish)
• Hotel Room (1958)
• Death is My Dancing Partner (1959)
• The Doom Stone (1960)
• Into the Night (1987, objavljen kao nezavršeni rukopis)

Izbor filmova snimljenih prema Woolrichovim delima

• Convicted (1938) (priča Face Work)
• Street of Chance (1942) (roman The Black Curtain)
• The Leopard Man (1943) (roman Black Alibi)
• Phantom Lady (1944) (roman)
• The Mark of the Whistler (1944) (priča Dormant Account)
• Deadline at Dawn (1946) (roman)
• Black Angel (1946) (roman)
• The Chase (1946) (roman The Black Path of Fear)
• Fall Guy (1947) (story Cocaine)
• The Guilty (1947) (priča He Looked Like Murder)
• Fear in the Night (1948) (priča Nightmare)
• The Return of the Whistler (1948) (priča All at Once, No Alice)
• I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948) (priča)
• Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948) (roman)
• The Window (1949) (priča The Boy Who Cried Murder)
• No Man of Her Own (1950) (roman I Married a Dead Man)
• El pendiente (1951) (priča The Death Stone)
• Si muero antes de despertar (1952) (priča If I Should Die Before I Wake)
• No abras nunca esa puerta (1952) (pričeSomebody on the Phone and Humming Bird Comes Home)
• Rear Window (1954) (priča It Had to Be Murder)
• Obsession (1954) (priča Silent as the Grave)
• Nightmare (1956) (priča)
• The Bride Wore Black (1968) (roman)
• Mississippi Mermaid (1969) (roman Waltz Into Darkness)
• Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972) (roman Rendezvous in Black)
• Union City (1980) (priča The Corpse Next Door)
• I Married a Shadow (1983) (roman I Married a Dead Man)
• Cloak & Dagger (1984) (priča The Boy Who Cried Murder)
• Mrs. Winterbourne (1996) (priča I Married a Dead Man)
• Original Sin (2001) (roman Waltz Into Darkness)
• Four O'Clock (2006) (priča Three O'Clock)

Izvori

1. Krinsky, Charles (2003). „Woolrich, Cornell”. glbtq.com. Arhivirano iz originala na datum 2007-08-14. Pristupljeno 4.12.2010.

Vanjske veze

• Cornell Woolrich na sajtu IMDb
• Djela čiji je autor ili tema Cornell Woolrich u bibliotekama (WorldCat katalog)