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Jonathan Wyatt Latimer (October 23, 1906 – June 23, 1983) was an American crime writer
Crime writer

A crime writer is an author of crime fiction.Crime writers are often, but not exclusively, authors of detective fiction, which may form part or all of their work....
.

in Chicago, Illinois
Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
, Latimer became a journalist
Journalist

A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues, and people while striving for viewpoints that aren't biased....
 for the Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune

"The Trib" redirects here. For other newspapers with similar names, see Tribune The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company....
, writing about crime
Crime

Societies define Crime as the breach of one or more rules or laws for which some Government or force may ultimately prescribe a punishment.The word crime originates from the Latin crimen , from the Latin root cerno and Greek ????? = "I judge"....
 and meeting Al Capone
Al Capone

Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone , commonly nicknamed "Scarface", was an Italian-American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated to smuggling and Rum-running of alcoholic beverage and other illegal activities during the Prohibition in the United States Era of the 1920s and 1930s....
 and Bugs Moran
Bugs Moran

George Clarence "Bugs" Moran was a Chicago Prohibition-era gangster born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Minnesota. Moran, of Poles-Irish people descent, moved to the North side of Chicago when he was 19 and was affiliated with several gangs while being incarcerated three times before turning 21....
, among others. In the mid-1930s, he turned to writing fiction
Fiction

Fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes. Although the word fiction is derived from the Latin fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum, "to form, create", works of fiction need not be entirely imaginary and may include real people, places, and events....
, starting with a series of novels featuring private eye William Crane, in which he introduced his typical blend of hardboiled
Hardboiled

Hardboiled crime fiction is a literary style distinguished by an unsentimental portrayal of crime, violence, and sex.Pioneered by Carroll John Daly in the mid-1920s, popularized by Dashiell Hammett over the course of the decade, and refined by Raymond Chandler beginning in the late 1930s, hardboiled fiction is most commonly associated wit...
 crime fiction
Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the genre of fiction that deals with crimes, their detection, criminals and their Motive s. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred....
 and elements of screwball comedy
Screwball Comedy

Screwball Comedy is an album by the Japanese band Soul Flower Union. The album found the band going into a simpler, harder-rocking direction, after several heavily world-music influenced albums....
.

During the Second World War
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 Latimer served in the United States Navy
United States Navy

The United States Navy is the navy of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy currently has approximately 331,682 personnel on active duty as of 31 December 2008 and 124,000 in the United States Navy Reserve....
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Jonathan Wyatt Latimer (October 23, 1906 – June 23, 1983) was an American crime writer
Crime writer

A crime writer is an author of crime fiction.Crime writers are often, but not exclusively, authors of detective fiction, which may form part or all of their work....
.

Life

Born in Chicago, Illinois
Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
, Latimer became a journalist
Journalist

A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues, and people while striving for viewpoints that aren't biased....
 for the Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune

"The Trib" redirects here. For other newspapers with similar names, see Tribune The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company....
, writing about crime
Crime

Societies define Crime as the breach of one or more rules or laws for which some Government or force may ultimately prescribe a punishment.The word crime originates from the Latin crimen , from the Latin root cerno and Greek ????? = "I judge"....
 and meeting Al Capone
Al Capone

Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone , commonly nicknamed "Scarface", was an Italian-American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated to smuggling and Rum-running of alcoholic beverage and other illegal activities during the Prohibition in the United States Era of the 1920s and 1930s....
 and Bugs Moran
Bugs Moran

George Clarence "Bugs" Moran was a Chicago Prohibition-era gangster born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Minnesota. Moran, of Poles-Irish people descent, moved to the North side of Chicago when he was 19 and was affiliated with several gangs while being incarcerated three times before turning 21....
, among others. In the mid-1930s, he turned to writing fiction
Fiction

Fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes. Although the word fiction is derived from the Latin fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum, "to form, create", works of fiction need not be entirely imaginary and may include real people, places, and events....
, starting with a series of novels featuring private eye William Crane, in which he introduced his typical blend of hardboiled
Hardboiled

Hardboiled crime fiction is a literary style distinguished by an unsentimental portrayal of crime, violence, and sex.Pioneered by Carroll John Daly in the mid-1920s, popularized by Dashiell Hammett over the course of the decade, and refined by Raymond Chandler beginning in the late 1930s, hardboiled fiction is most commonly associated wit...
 crime fiction
Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the genre of fiction that deals with crimes, their detection, criminals and their Motive s. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred....
 and elements of screwball comedy
Screwball Comedy

Screwball Comedy is an album by the Japanese band Soul Flower Union. The album found the band going into a simpler, harder-rocking direction, after several heavily world-music influenced albums....
.

During the Second World War
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 Latimer served in the United States Navy
United States Navy

The United States Navy is the navy of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy currently has approximately 331,682 personnel on active duty as of 31 December 2008 and 124,000 in the United States Navy Reserve....
. After the war, he moved to California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
 and continued his work as a Hollywood
Cinema of the United States

United States cinema has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. Its history is sometimes separated into four main periods: the silent film era, Classical Hollywood cinema, New Hollywood, and the contemporary period ....
 screenwriter
Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scenarists are scriptwriters who write the screenplays from which films and television programs are made.Most screenwriters start their careers writing on speculation....
.

He died of lung cancer
Lung cancer

Lung cancer is a disease of uncontrolled cell growth in tissue of the lung. This growth may lead to metastasis, which is the invasion of adjacent tissue and infiltration beyond the lungs....
 in La Jolla, California.

Select bibliography


The William Crane series

  • Murder in the Madhouse (1935
    1935 in literature

    The year 1935 in literature involved some significant events and new books.Events*Penguin Books publishes the first "paperback" book.*W....
    )
  • Headed for a Hearse (1935
    1935 in literature

    The year 1935 in literature involved some significant events and new books.Events*Penguin Books publishes the first "paperback" book.*W....
    )
  • The Lady in the Morgue
    The Lady in the Morgue

    The Lady in the Morgue is one of the novels by Jonathan Latimer featuring private detective William Crane. The lady of the title is a female corpse which is stolen from a Chicago morgue before the dead woman's identity can be established....
     (1936
    1936 in literature

    The year 1936 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
    )
  • The Dead Don't Care (1938
    1938 in literature

    The year 1938 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
    )
  • Red Gardenias (1939
    1939 in literature

    The year 1939 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
    )


Non-series novels

  • Solomon's Vineyard (1941
    1941 in literature

    The year 1941 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
    )
  • Sinners and Shrouds (1955
    1955 in literature

    The year 1955 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
    )
  • Black Is the Fashion for Dying (1959
    1959 in literature

    The year 1959 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
    )


Non-crime novels

  • The Search for My Great Uncle's Head (1937
    1937 in literature

    The year 1937 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
    ) (as Peter Coffin)
  • Dark Memory (1940
    1940 in literature

    The year 1940 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
    )


Screenplays

  • The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
    The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt

    The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt is a 1939 in film film starring Warren William, Ida Lupino, Rita Hayworth, and Virginia Weidler. The film was directed by Peter Godfrey ....
     (1939
    1939 in film

    The year 1939 in film involved some significant events....
    ) (based on a novel by Louis Joseph Vance
    Louis Joseph Vance

    Louis Joseph Vance was an United States novelist, born in Washington, D. C., and educated in the preparatory department of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute....
    )
  • Topper Returns
    Topper Returns

    Topper Returns is the third and final entry in the initial series of films inspired by the novels of Thorne Smith. It followed Topper and Topper Takes a Trip ....
     (1941
    1941 in film

    The year 1941 in film involved some significant events....
    ) (original screenplay)
  • The Glass Key
    The Glass Key

    The Glass Key is a novel by Dashiell Hammett, said to be his favorite among his works. It was first published in 1931, and tells the story of gambler and racketeer Ned Beaumont, whose devotion to crooked political boss Paul Madvig leads him to investigate the murder of a local senator's son as a potential gang war brews....
     (1942
    1942 in film

    The year 1942 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the Films considered the greatest ever, Casablanca .....
    ) (based on the Dashiell Hammett
    Dashiell Hammett

    Samuel Dashiell Hammett was an United States author of hardboiled detective fiction novels and short stories. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade , Nick and Nora Charles , and the Continental Op ....
     novel)
  • Nocturne
    Nocturne (1946 film)

    Nocturne is a black-and-white film noir starring George Raft and Lynn Bari. The film was produced by longtime Alfred Hitchcock associate Joan Harrison, scripted by Jonathan Latimer, and directed by Edwin L....
     (1946
    1946 in film

    The year 1946 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • They Won't Believe Me
    They Won't Believe Me

    They Won't Believe Me is a 1947 in film drama film starring Susan Hayward. The black-and-white film noir was directed by Irving Pichel. The film was produced by Alfred Hitchcock's longtime assistant and collaborator, Joan Harrison....
     (1947
    1947 in film

    The year 1947 in film involved some significant events....
    ) (based on a story by Gordon McDonell)
  • The Big Clock
    The Big Clock (1948 film)

    The Big Clock is a film noir thriller directed by John Farrow, based on the The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing. The black-and-white film is set in New York City and stars Ray Milland and Maureen O'Sullivan....
     (1948
    1948 in film

    The year 1948 in film involved some significant events....
    ) (based on the Kenneth Fearing
    Kenneth Fearing

    Kenneth Fearing was an American poet, novelist, and founding editor of the Partisan Review. Literary critic Macha Rosenthal called him "the chief poet of the American Great Depression."...
     novel)
  • Night Has a Thousand Eyes
    Night Has a Thousand Eyes

    Night Has a Thousand Eyes is a 1948 in film black-and-white film noir starring Edward G. Robinson. The movie, directed by John Farrow, is based on a novel by Cornell Woolrich....
     (1948
    1948 in film

    The year 1948 in film involved some significant events....
    ) (based on the Cornell Woolrich
    Cornell Woolrich

    Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich was an United States novelist and short story writer. His biographer, Francis Nevins Jr., rated Woolrich the fourth best Crime fiction of his day, behind only Dashiell Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner and Raymond Chandler....
     novel)
  • Plunder of the Sun
    Plunder of the Sun

    Plunder of the Sun is a 1949 in literature novel by David F. Dodge about a hunt for ancient Peruvian treasure. It was made into a 1953 in film movie of the same name starring Glenn Ford and relocated to Mexico....
     (1953
    1953 in film

    The year 1953 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • The Unholy Wife
    The Unholy Wife

    The Unholy Wife is a color film noir 1957 in film drama film produced and directed by John Farrow. The screenplay was written by William Durkee and Jonathan Latimer....
     (1957
    1957 in film

    The year 1957 in film involved some significant events....
    ) (co-authored with William Durkee)
  • Several episodes of the Perry Mason
    Perry Mason (TV series)

    Perry Mason is an Emmy Award-winning American TV series that ran from 1957 in television to 1966 in television. Perry Mason was played by actor Raymond Burr....
     television series
  • The Greenhouse Jungle (from the second season of the Columbo television series, 1972
    1972 in television

    The year 1972 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1972.For the United States TV schedule, see: 1972-73 American network television schedule....
    )


See also

  • Hard boiled American crime fiction
    History of crime fiction

    Crime fiction is a typically 19th and 20th century genre, dominated by United Kingdom and United States writers. This article explores its historical development as a genre....
     for a discussion of Solomon's Vineyard, the publication of which was suppressed in the United States for a long time.


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