![]() ![]() As Eddie Duggan observes, "Woolrich enrolled at New York's Columbia University in 1921 where he spent a relatively undistinguished year until he was taken ill and was laid up for some weeks. ![]() He attended Columbia University but left in 1926 without graduating when his first novel, Cover Charge, was published. His parents separated when he was young, and he lived for a time in Mexico with his father before returning to New York to live with his mother, Claire Attalie Woolrich. His biographer, Francis Nevins Jr., rated Woolrich the fourth best crime writer of his day, behind Dashiell Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner and Raymond Chandler. He sometimes used the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley. Cornell George Hopley Woolrich ( / ˈ w ʊ l r ɪ tʃ/ WUUL-ritch Decem– September 25, 1968) was an American novelist and short story writer. ![]()
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