Quotes About James Cain

James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn't like this saddle.

I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing.