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Woolrich was born in [[New York City]]. 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.<ref>{{cite magazine | url=http://www.time.com/time/columnist/corliss/article/0,9565,557218,00.html | magazine=Time | title=That Old Feeling: Woolrich's World | first=Richard | last=Corliss | date=8 December 2003 | access-date=25 July 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100811185250/http://www.time.com/time/columnist/corliss/article/0,9565,557218,00.html | archive-date=11 August 2010 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}</ref>
He attended [[Columbia University]] but left in 1926 without graduating when his first novel, ''Cover Charge'', was published.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-05-07 |title=Take Five with Charles Ardai '91 |url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/latest/take-five/take-five-charles-ardai-91 |access-date=2022-05-01 |website=Columbia College Today |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last1=Columbia College (Columbia University). Office of Alumni Affairs and Development |url=http://archive.org/details/ldpd_12981092_023 |title=Columbia College today |last2=Columbia College (Columbia University) |date=1981 |publisher=New York: Columbia College, Office of Alumni Affairs and Development |others=Columbia University Libraries}}</ref> 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. It was during this illness (a ''Rear
{{blockquote| Although Woolrich had published six 'jazz-age' novels, concerned with the party-antics and romances of the beautiful young things on the fringes of American society, between 1926 and 1932, he was unable to establish himself as a serious writer. Perhaps because the 'jazz-age' novel was dead in the water by the 1930s when the [[Great Depression|Depression]] had begun to take hold, Woolrich was unable to find a publisher for his seventh novel, ''I Love You, Paris'', so he literally threw away the typescript, dumped it in a dustbin, and re-invented himself as a pulp writer.<ref name=ED/>}}
He returned to New York, where he and his mother moved into the [[Hotel Marseilles]] (Broadway and West 103rd Street on Manhattan's [[Upper West Side]]). Eddie Duggan observes that "[a]lthough his writing made him wealthy, Woolrich and his mother lived in a series of seedy hotel rooms, including the squalid Hotel Marseilles apartment building in Harlem [sic], among a group of thieves, prostitutes and lowlifes that would not be out of place in Woolrich's dark fictional world."<ref name=ED/> Woolrich lived there until his mother's death on October 6, 1957, which prompted his move to the slightly more upscale Hotel Franconia (20 West 72nd Street near Central Park).<ref>Nevins, Francis M. "Introduction," ''Tonight, Somewhere in New York''. Carroll & Graf, 2001.</ref> Duggan wrote:
{{blockquote | [After] Woolrich's mother died in 1957, he [went] into a sharp physical and mental decline.}}
In later years, he socialized on occasion in Manhattan bars with [[Mystery Writers of America]] colleagues and younger fans such as writer [[Ron Goulart]].<ref>Goulart, Ron: "The Ghost of Cornell Woolrich" ''The Twilight Zone Magazine'', December 1984, pp. 16–17</ref> He moved later to the Sheraton-Russell on Park Avenue and became a virtual recluse. In his 60s, with his eyesight failing, lonely, wracked by guilt over his homosexuality, tortured by self-doubt, alcoholic and a diabetic, Woolrich neglected himself to such a degree that he allowed a foot infection to become gangrenous which resulted, early in 1968, in the amputation of a leg.
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==Bibliography==
Most of Woolrich's books are out of print, and new editions were slow to come out because of estate issues.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}} However, new collections of his short stories were issued in the early 1990s. As of February 3, 2020, the Faded Page has seven titles available as [[EBook|ebooks]] in the [[public domain]] in Canada; these may be still under copyright elsewhere. In 2020 and 2021, [[Otto Penzler]]'s "American Mystery Classics" series released new editions of ''Waltz into Darkness'' and ''The Bride Wore Black'' in both hardcover and paperback.
Woolrich died leaving fragments of an unfinished novel, titled ''The Loser''; fragments have been published separately and also collected in ''[[Tonight, Somewhere in New York]]'' (2005).
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==Selected films based on Woolrich's
* ''[[Manhattan Love Song]]'' (1934) (based on the novel), directed by Leonard Fields
* ''[[Convicted (1938 film)|Convicted]]'' (1938) (based on the short story
* ''[[Street of Chance (1942 film)|Street of Chance]]'' (1942) (based on the novel ''The Black Curtain''), directed by [[Jack Hively]]
* ''[[The Leopard Man]]'' (1943) (novel ''Black Alibi''), directed by [[Jacques Tourneur]]
* ''[[Phantom Lady (film)|Phantom Lady]]'' (1944) (based on the novel), directed by [[Robert Siodmak]]
* ''[[The Mark of the Whistler]]'' (1944) (based on the story
* ''[[Deadline at Dawn]]'' (1946) (based on the novel), the only film directed by stage director [[Harold Clurman]]
* ''[[Black Angel (1946 film)|Black Angel]]'' (1946) (based on the novel), directed by [[Roy William Neill]]
* ''[[The Chase (1946 film)|The Chase]]'' (1946) (based on the novel ''The Black Path of Fear''). directed by [[Arthur Ripley]]
* ''[[Fall Guy (1947 film)|Fall Guy]]'' (1947) (based on the story
* ''[[The Guilty (1947 film)|The Guilty]]'' (1947) (based on the story
* ''[[Fear in the Night (1947 film)|Fear in the Night]]'' (1947) (based on the story story
* ''[[The Return of the Whistler]]'' (1948) (based on the story
* ''[[I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes]]'' (1948) (based on the story), directed by [[William Nigh]]
* ''[[Night Has a Thousand Eyes]]'' (1948) (based on the novel), directed by [[John Farrow]]
* ''[[The Window (1949 film)|The Window]]'' (1949) (based on the story
* ''[[No Man of Her Own (1950 film)|No Man of Her Own]]'' (1950) (based on the novel ''I Married a Dead Man''), directed by [[Mitchell Leisen]]
* ''[[The Earring]]'' (1951) (based on the story
* ''The Trace of Some Lips'' (1952)<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://balaju.uv.mx/index.php/balaju/article/view/2552|title=The melodrama star as a noir film heroine: The Trace of Some Lips (1952)|journal=Balajú. Revista de Cultura y Comunicación de la Universidad Veracruzana|date=2 August 2018|author=Ortiz, Roberto Carlos|issue=8 |pages=69–89 |doi=10.25009/blj.v0i8.2552 |s2cid=192712997 |doi-access=free}}</ref> (based on the story
* ''If I Should Die Before I Wake'' (1952),<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/shci.4.2.121_1|title=Two Takes on Gender in Argentine Film Noir|journal=Studies in Hispanic Cinemas|date=May 2008|author=Thompson, Currie K|volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=121–130 |doi=10.1386/shci.4.2.121_1 }}</ref> directed by [[Carlos Hugo Christensen]]
* ''[[Don't Ever Open That Door]]'' (1952) (an [[anthology]] film based on the stories
* ''[[Rear Window]]'' (1954) (based on the story
* ''[[Obsession (1954 film)|Obsession]]'' (1954) (based on the story
* ''The Glass Eye'' (1956), directed by Antonio Santillán
* ''[[Nightmare (1956 film)|Nightmare]]'' (1956) (based on the story), directed by [[Maxwell Shane]]
* ''[[Escapade (1957 film)|Escapade]]'' (1957) (based on the story
* ''[[Ah, Bomb!]]'' (1964) (based on the story ''Adventures of a Fountain Pen''), directed by [[Kihachi Okamoto]]
* ''[[The Boy Cried Murder]]'' (1966) (based on the story ''The Boy Cried Murder''), directed by [[George P. Breakston]]
* ''[[The Bride Wore Black]]'' (1968) (based on the novel), directed by [[François Truffaut]]
* ''[[Mississippi Mermaid]] '' (1969) (based on the novel ''Waltz into Darkness''), directed by François Truffaut
* ''[[Kati Patang]]'' (1970) (based on the novel ''I Married a Dead Man''),<ref name=exp>{{cite news |title=Shabnam Still Gets Fan Mail|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/shabnam-still-gets-fan-mail/720458/0 |publisher=Indian Express |date=Dec 4, 2010 |access-date=May 7, 2013}}</ref> directed by [[Shakti Samanta]]
* ''[[Seven Blood-Stained Orchids]]'' (1972) (based on the novel ''Rendezvous in Black''), directed by [[Umberto Lenzi]]
* ''[[You'll Never See Me Again]]'' (1973),
* ''[[Martha (1974 film)|Martha]]'' (1974) (based on the story ''For the Rest of Her Life''), directed by [[Rainer Werner Fassbinder]]
* ''Gun Moll'' (1975) (based on the story "Collared"), directed by [[Giorgio Capitani]]
* ''[[Union City (film)|Union City]]'' (1980) (based on the story
* ''[[I Married a Shadow]]'' (1983) (based on the novel ''I Married a Dead Man'')
* ''[[Cloak & Dagger (1984 film)|Cloak & Dagger]]'' (1984) (story
* ''[[I'm Dangerous Tonight]]'' (1990) (based on the story
* ''[[Mrs. Winterbourne]]'' (1996) (based on the novel
* ''[[Rear Window (1998 film)|Rear Window]]'' (1998) (based on the story
* ''[[Original Sin (2001 film)|Original Sin]]'' (2001) (based on the novel ''Waltz into Darkness''), directed by [[Michael Cristofer]]
* ''[[Four O'Clock (film)|Four O'Clock]]'' (2006) (based on the story
==References==
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[[Category:American short story writers]]▼
[[Category:American male short story writers]]
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