Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 69
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Author James M. Cain and fan, circa 1950s. James M. Cain, best known as the author of The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and Mildred Pierce, was born in Maryland in 1892.After an army career and early aspirations of becoming a singer, as his mother had been, he was a reporter and journalist for many years in Baltimore and New York.