Elizabeth Hardwick (writer)
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Elizabeth Bruce Hardwick was an American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer.
Hardwick in the 1980s
Caryl Chessman
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Caryl Whittier Chessman was a convicted robber, kidnapper, serial rapist, and writer who was sentenced to death for a series of crimes committed in January 1948 in the Los Angeles area. Chessman was c
Elizabeth Hardwick (writer)
…published a short biography, Herman Melville, in Viking Press's Penguin Lives series. In 2008, the Library of America selected Hardwick's account of Caryl Chessman's crimes for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime writing. A collection of her short fiction, The New York Stories of…
Chessman on November 25, 1953