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Born William Lindsay GRESHAM
American novelist and non-fiction author
Born on August 20, 1909 in Baltimore, Maryland , United States
Died on September 14, 1962 in New York, New York , United States
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His best-known work is Nightmare Alley (1946), which was adapted into a 1947 film starring Tyrone Power.
... As a child, he moved to New York with his family, where he became fascinated by the sideshow at Coney Island. Upon graduating from Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn in 1926, Gresham drifted from job to job, and worked as a folk singer in Greenwich Village. In 1937, Gresham served as a volunteer medic for the Loyalist forces during the Spanish Civil War. There, he befriended a former sideshow employee, Joseph Daniel "Doc" Halliday, and their long conversations inspired much of his work, particularly Gresham's two books about the American carnival, the nonfiction Monster Midway and the fictional Nightmare Alley.
His best-known work is Nightmare Alley (1946), which was adapted into a 1947 film starring Tyrone Power.
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