Goodis, David

The American author David Goodis is ranked as one of the greatest names in ‘noir’ literature, and some of his novels have been labelled classics. This applies not least to his second novel, Dark Passage (1946), which was successfully filmed in 1947 with Laureen Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in the starring roles. Goodis started his literary career by writing for pulp magazines and paperback publishers and he continued with that even after some of his books – including Cassidy’s Girl (1951) – sold more than a million copies. His novels became very popular in, above all, France, where several of them have been filmed, but even in Italy and Spain.