Daniel Mainwaring Quotes

Daniel Mainwaring was an American novelist and screenwriter. He began his professional career as a journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle and enjoyed a successful career as a mystery novelist. He also worked as a film publicist and eventually abandoned fiction for a successful career as a screenwriter. His first novel, One Against the Earth, was a proletarian novel about a young man born on a California ranch who becomes a drifter and is eventually unjustly accused of attacking a child, was published in 1932. He made his real mark, however, with a string of hard-boiled mystery novels, the first of which was The Man Who Murdered Himself. Toward the end of his career, in the 1960s, he wrote for TV shows like The Wild Wild West and Mannix.