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Stephen Gould Fisher (August 29, 1912 – March 27, 1980) was an American author best known for his pulp stories, novels and screenplays. He is one of the few pulp authors to go on to enjoy success as both an author in "slick" magazines, such as the Saturday Evening Post, and as an in-demand writer in Hollywood .
Sep 10, 2017 · It is difficult to remember more than seventy years after the revolution, but Steve Fisher, Cornell Woolrich, and a few other of the second wave Black Mask boys of the late 1930s, ushered in a dramatic change in crime fiction narration from the objective, hard-boiled writing promoted by Joseph Shaw and the earlier editors of Black ...
Steve Fisher was born on 29 August 1912 in Marine City, Michigan, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Destination Tokyo (1943), Hell's Half Acre (1954) and Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1955).
As a short-story writer for the pulps (usually under the name Steve Fisher), he was known primarily for his hardboiled crime stories—many of which featured private investigator Sheridan Doome—for Black Mask in the 1930s and 1940s.
Mystery & Thrillers. edit data. Born in 1912 in Marine City, Michigan, Stephen Gould Fisher was thirteen when he sold his first story to a magazine. At sixteen he joined the Marines. He was still in the service when he began to publish stories and articles in US Navy and Our Navy.
Steve Fisher is one of the unjustly forgotten noir writers who knew Hollywood and studied its seamy, grimy side to good effect. It's fast-paced with well-sketched characters and a good plot whose violence revolves around sex, ambition and jaded dreams.
Steve Fisher (1912-1980) was an American writer of hardboiled crime fiction. Before his death, he wrote scripts for the shows Fantasy Island, Starsky and Hutch, and Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Fisher grew up around Los Angeles where his mother, an actress, enrolled him in Oneonta Military Academy.
