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Joan Kahn (1914–1994)

Auteur de Some Things Strange and Sinister

18+ oeuvres 277 utilisateurs 3 critiques

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Œuvres de Joan Kahn

Some Things Strange and Sinister (1972) — Directeur de publication — 50 exemplaires
Some Things Dark and Dangerous (1970) 39 exemplaires
Some Things Fierce and Fatal (1971) — Directeur de publication — 35 exemplaires
Hanging by a thread (1969) 18 exemplaires
Trial and Terror (1973) — Directeur de publication — 15 exemplaires
Skeleton Keys (1969) 12 exemplaires
Open at Your Own Risk (1975) 9 exemplaires
Chilling and killing (1978) 7 exemplaires
You Can't Catch Me (1976) 3 exemplaires
Open house: A novel 1 exemplaire

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The midnight Raymond Chandler (1971) — Introduction — 64 exemplaires

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Date de naissance
1914-04-13
Date de décès
1994-10-12
Sexe
female
Nationalité
USA
Lieu de naissance
New York, New York, USA
Lieu du décès
New York, New York, USA
Lieux de résidence
New York, New York, USA
Études
Yale University (School of Art)
Barnard College
Art Students' League
Professions
editor
mystery writer
novelist
children's book author
Relations
Kahn, E.J. (brother)
Organisations
Harper & Row
Prix et distinctions
Ellery Queen Award (1985)
Courte biographie
Joan Kahn was born in New York City and attended the Horace Mann School, Barnard College, and the Yale School of Art. Her younger brother, E.J. Kahn, also grew up to become a writer. She began her editing career in 1946 at Harper Brothers--later Harper and Row--editing hundreds of books on art, travel, and history. She established the Harper Novels of Suspense department, and published works by top mystery writers such as Patricia Highsmith and Tony Hillerman. She introduced American readers to many British writers, including Nicholas Blake, John Creasey, Dick Francis, Michael Gilbert, Julian Symons, and the great Dorothy L. Sayers, whose books were out -of-print until Harper republished her complete works. During the 1960s, she had her own imprint, "A Joan Kahn Book," one of the highest honors in publishing, which represented excellence to mystery readers. She also edited books for Ticknor & Fields, E.P. Dutton, and St. Martin's Press, from which she retired in 1989. She wrote two novels, To Meet Miss Long (1943) and Open House (1946) and four children’s books of her own. The Mystery Writers of America awarded Joan Kahn the Ellery Queen Award and the Edgar Allan Poe Award in recognition of her contribution to publishing.

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A collection of sixteen stories of suspense by Evelyn Waugh, Dorothy L. Sayers, Robert Louis Stevenson, Q. Patrick, Edmund Pearson, John Bartlow Martin, and other authors.
 
Signalé
antimuzak | Mar 20, 2007 |
When I saw this book in McIntyre & Moore, I was sure it would be disappointing. It had no dust jacket, and on the cover was merely an embossed scull and cross-bones. The spine read "Enter At Your Own Risk." How could such an alluring cover possibly contain equally satisfying contents??

But it does. This book is a collection of fantastically spooky stories by some of the best writers of the past two centuries. It starts you off with the skin-crawlingly creepy story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," and doesn't let up.… (plus d'informations)
 
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caerulius | Jan 2, 2007 |
"A collection of classic horror - terror - suspense stories by classic authors such as Bradbury, Maupassant, Dorothy Sayers, Jack London, Faulkner and more"; includes Kipling's "lovely and heartbreaking ghost story" "They" and Pushkin's "Queen of Spades."
 
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languagehat | Sep 14, 2005 |

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Statistiques

Œuvres
18
Aussi par
1
Membres
277
Popularité
#83,813
Évaluation
4.0
Critiques
3
ISBN
34

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