Horace McCoy

Horace McCoy
BornHorace Stanley McCoy
(1897-04-14)April 14, 1897
Pegram, Tennessee
DiedDecember 15, 1955(1955-12-15) (aged 58)
Beverly Hills, California
OccupationNovelist
NationalityAmerican
Genre
Notable worksThey Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Horace Stanley McCoy (April 14, 1897 – December 15, 1955) was an American writer whose mostly hardboiled stories took place during the Great Depression. His best-known novel is They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935), which was made into a movie of the same name in 1969, fourteen years after McCoy's death.[1]

  1. ^ Liukkonen, Petri. "Horace McCoy". Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi). Finland: Kuusankoski Public Library. Archived from the original on 27 April 2009.

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