Horace McCoy | |
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| Born | Horace Stanley McCoy April 14, 1897 Pegram, Tennessee |
| Died | December 15, 1955 (aged 58) Beverly Hills, California |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | |
| Notable works | They 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]