Dorothy B. Hughes | |
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| Born | Dorothy Belle Flanagan August 10, 1904 Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | May 6, 1993 (aged 88) Ashland, Oregon, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Missouri |
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| Children | 3 |
Dorothy B. Hughes (August 10, 1904 – May 6, 1993) was an American crime writer, literary critic, and historian. Hughes wrote fourteen crime and detective novels, primarily in the hardboiled and noir styles, and is best known for the novels In a Lonely Place (1947) and Ride the Pink Horse (1946).