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Author Description Dorothy B. Hughes (1904–1993) was a mystery author and literary critic. Born in Kansas City, she studied at Columbia University, and won an award from the Yale Series of Younger Poets for her first book, the poetry collection <i>Dark Certainty</i> (1931). After writing several unsuccessful manuscripts, she published <i>The So Blue Marble</i> in 1940. A New York–based mystery, it won praise for its hardboiled prose, which was due, in part, to Hughes’s editor, who demanded she cut 25,000 words from the book.<br /><br />Hughes published thirteen more novels, the best known of which are <i>In a Lonely Place</i> (1947) and <i>Ride the Pink Horse</i> (1946). Both were made into successful films. In the early fifties, Hughes largely stopped writing fiction, preferring to focus on criticism, for which she would go on to win an Edgar Award. In 1978, the Mystery Writers of America presented Hughes with the Grand Master Award for literary achievement.

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