John Dickson Carr (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
John Dickson Carr was one of the leading authors of the so-called Golden Age of the detective novel that lasted from roughly 1925 to 1945. He was the only child of Wooda M. Carr, a lawyer and one-term Democratic congressman, and Julia Kisinger, with whom Carr had a contentious relationship. From his father, Carr inherited his love of reading and reverence for the past as well as a tendency toward alcoholism, and some of his leading characters’ histrionics can be attributed to those of his father.
During his youth, Carr wrote a newspaper column in his hometown of Uniontown,...
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