David Loeb Goodis (March 2, 1917 - January 7, 1967) was an American writer of crime fiction, noted for his short stories and novels epitomizing the noir fiction genre. A native of Philadelphia, Goo...lihat lebih banyakDavid Loeb Goodis (March 2, 1917 - January 7, 1967) was an American writer of crime fiction, noted for his short stories and novels epitomizing the noir fiction genre. A native of Philadelphia, Goodis alternately resided there and in New York City and Hollywood during his professional years, but maintained a deep identification with the city of his birth, Philadelphia, cultivating the skid row neighborhoods of his home town, using what he observed to craft his hard-boiled sagas of lives gone wrong.lihat lebih sedikit