William Lindsay Gresham

Born August 20, 1909· Baltimore, MD

† Died September 14, 1962

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Emerging from a Baltimore birth and a New York upbringing, he left Erasmus Hall High School in 1926 and wandered through assorted jobs, even performing folk songs in Greenwich Village, before finding a voice as a writer. His experience as a volunteer medic in the Spanish Civil War and his fascination with carnival sideshows supplied material for the noir novel Nightmare Alley, published in 1946; t… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources