Elliott ChazeElliott Chaze (1915-1990) was an American novelist and journalist whose reputation rests chiefly on Black Wings Has My Angel, one of the great rediscovered noir novels of the Gold Medal paperback era. Born in Louisiana, Chaze worked as a newspapermanand served during World War II before turning to fiction. His writing often draws on the hard, mobile, unsentimental world of mid-century American life: cheap hotels, road towns, crime, sexual danger, money hunger, and people who think they can outrun the consequences of their own character.Though Chaze wrote several novels, Black Wings Has My Angel remains his defining achievement. First published in 1953 and later reissued under alternate titles before returning to print under its original name, the novel has earned a strong cult reputation among readers of classic noir and paperback crime fiction. Its power lies in Chaze's combination of hardboiled speed, bitter lyricism, heist plotting, erotic tension, and fatalistic psychology. For readers of Gold Medal Books, mid-century American crime fiction, noir, hardboiled suspense, and doomed criminal love stories, Chaze is exactly the kind of writer Black Curtain Books exists to recover. Read More Read Less