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Richard Edward Connell Jr. (October 17, 1893 – November 22, 1949) was an American author and journalist. He is most notable for his short story "The Most Dangerous Game" (1924). Connell was one of the most popular American short story writers of his time.
"The Most Dangerous Game", also published as "The Hounds of Zaroff", is a short story by Richard Connell, first published in Collier's on January 19, 1924, with illustrations by Wilmot Emerton Heitland.
Richard Connell, born in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1893, was a popular author and journalist whose short stories were regularly published in magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post and Collier's Weekly. His story, The Most Dangerous Game is his best remembered work, which we feature in our Mystery Stories.
He was nominated for an Academy Award in 1942 for best original story for the film Meet John Doe. Richard Edward Connell, Jr. was an American author and journalist, best known for his short story "The Most Dangerous Game."
“The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. THE LITERARY WORK. A short story set in the Caribbean Sea in the early 1920s; published in 1924. SYNOPSIS. A world-renowned hunter, sailing to the Amazon River to hunt jaguars, falls overboard and swims to a remote island.
Richard Edward Connell (1893-1949) was an American short story writer, journalist, novelist, and screenwriter. He was most popular for his two screenplays “Two Girls and a Sailor” and “Meet John Doe”. For “Meet John Doe”, he was nominated for Academy Awards in the mid-20th century for the best original story.
It is now the story for which its author, Richard Connell (1893-1949), is best-remembered, and critics and reviewers have drawn comparisons between ‘The Most Dangerous Game’ and Suzanne Collins’s bestselling Hunger Games series, because both narratives….
