Lionel White
Born
in Buffalo, New York, The United States
July 09, 1905
Died
December 26, 1985
Genre
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The Killing
31 editions
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published
1955
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The Big Caper
14 editions
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published
1955
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The Snatchers / Clean Break
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Invitation to Violence
13 editions
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published
1958
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Hostage for a Hood
9 editions
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published
1957
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The Snatchers
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published
1953
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The House Next Door
9 editions
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published
1956
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Marilyn K. / The House Next Door
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Coffin for a Hood / Operation—Murder
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Obsession
6 editions
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1963
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“In the years before Stanley Kubrick became Stanley Kubrick, the man had been a photographer by trade as well as an avid student of film. He had made two small feature films, almost completely by himself, with the second, Killer’s Kiss, being the more notable and successful. It was a small film but its tone and style, especially done on a self-financed shoestring budget, caught the eye of United Artists. The best thing to come from that film was that UA told Kubrick that when he came up with something else, they’d like to take a look at it. Alexander Singer, who later”
― The Snatchers / Clean Break
― The Snatchers / Clean Break
“White did try his hand at a few stories outside of actual noir. At the beginning of his career, his first book appeared as a Rainbow Books digest magazine called Seven Hungry Men! in 1952. The cover featured several taboos of the time, including a shirtless black man playing with a knife, a nasty expression on his face, alone in a cabin with a haughty white women wearing a high-slitted skirt and tipping a bottle of booze. The back cover is almost equally scandalous—it shows a black and white photograph of a woman resembling the one from the front cover wearing nothing but a matching set of underwear and a wide open lacy peignoir. Shocking stuff for 1952’s America.”
― The Snatchers / Clean Break
― The Snatchers / Clean Break
“Get WNEW,â€� Dent said. “That’s the news station, and they’d be the first to have it if there’s anything.”
― The Snatchers / Clean Break
― The Snatchers / Clean Break
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