Benjamin Appel

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Benjamin Appel, or Benjamin Apple (September 13, 1907, New York City - April 1977) was an American writer (novelist). He was one of the writers of the period specializing in detective and crime fiction, sometimes from a radical perspective.

Appel grew up in the Hell's Kitchen area of New York City. It was this experience that he drew upon when writing his novels. ^[1]

Before he began earning a living from his writing, he was a bank clerk, farmer, lumberjack, factory-hand and a housing inspector for New York City.

[edit] Works

• Brain Guy, aka The Enforcer (1934)
• Four Roads to Death, aka Gold and Flesh (1935)
• The Power-House (1939)
• The Dark Stain (1943)
• But Not Yet Slain (1947)
• Plunder (1952)
• Dock Walloper (1953)
• Life and Death of a Tough Guy, aka Teen-Age Mobster (1955)
• Hell's Kitchen, aka Alley Kids (1956)
• The Raw Edge (1958)
• The Funhouse, aka The Death Master (1959)
• Big Man, A Fast Man (1961)
• A Time of Fortune (1963)
• Brain Guy / Plunder (2005)

[edit] References

• Horsley, Lee.: the Noir Thriller. by Anthony Bukoski; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 34, 2002 subscription access
• Geraldine E. LaRocque, "Books That Open Doors to Understanding" The English Journal, Vol. 56, No. 2 (Feb., 1967), pp. 314-320 JSTOR
• Ellen Andrews Knodt (1979) "The American Criminal: The Quintessential Self-Made Man? " The Journal of American Culture 2 (1), 30–41. subscription access

[edit] External links

• Fantastic fiction page
• http://www.sarahweinman.com/confessions/2006/01/index.html
• http://homepage2.nifty.com/yoshinojin/Crime.files/CW1.files/Appel02.html (Japanese)
• http://shop.store.yahoo.com/shocklines/adorbookfrom.html
• Guide to the Benjamin Appel papers at the University of Oregon
• Benjamin Appel Collection at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin