W.R. Burnett

Born November 25, 1899· Springfield, Ohio, USA

† Died April 25, 1982

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Emerging from Springfield, Ohio, and educated at the Miami Military Institute, he left a civil-service post at twenty-eight to seek opportunities in Chicago, where night-shift work at the Northmere Hotel exposed him to the criminal milieu that would inspire his breakthrough novel. That book, Little Caesar, appeared in 1929 and was filmed in 1931, launching the classic American gangster genre and s… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources