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Stephen Gould Fisher (August 29, 1912 – March 27, 1980) was an American author best known for his pulp stories, novels and screenplays. He is one of the few pulp authors to go on to enjoy success as both an author in "slick" magazines, such as the Saturday Evening Post, and as an in-demand writer in Hollywood .
Mystery & Thrillers. edit data. Born in 1912 in Marine City, Michigan, Stephen Gould Fisher was thirteen when he sold his first story to a magazine. At sixteen he joined the Marines. He was still in the service when he began to publish stories and articles in US Navy and Our Navy.
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Steve Fisher was born on 29 August 1912 in Marine City, Michigan, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Destination Tokyo (1943), Hell's Half Acre (1954) and Nurse from Brooklyn (1938). He was married to Edithe Seimes. He died on 27 March 1980 in Canoga Park, California, USA.
- Writer, Producer
- August 29, 1912
- Steve Fisher
- March 27, 1980
Sep 10, 2017 · Steve Fisher, particularly in his film scripts, but also in I Wake up Screaming, is a master of dark, psychological thrills. His dreamlike fictional worlds deliver more powerful emotional experiences than more elegant stylists are able to arouse.
Steve Fisher grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and moved to Southern California in 1980. At various points, he was a musician, a radio disc-jockey and a record producer before finding his true path as a writer. He is the author of The World Is Your Litter Box, a humorous cat book, and several short stories.
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Steve Fisher is one of the unjustly forgotten noir writers who knew Hollywood and studied its seamy, grimy side to good effect. It's fast-paced with well-sketched characters and a good plot whose violence revolves around sex, ambition and jaded dreams.
As a short-story writer for the pulps (usually under the name Steve Fisher), he was known primarily for his hardboiled crime stories—many of which featured private investigator Sheridan Doome—for Black Mask in the 1930s and 1940s.