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  1. May 26, 2020 · 'The End of Me,' the last and best of Alfred Hayes' reissued midcentury novels, ... The next, “My Face for the World to See” (1958), follows another introspective writer to Hollywood, where he ...

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  2. Jul 6, 2018 · IN ALFRED HAYES’S NOVEL The End of Me (1968), Asher, an aging screenwriter, flees from Los Angeles, leaving behind a failing career and an adulterous wife. In a New York bar he tries to engage ...

  3. Mar 25, 2021 · New York Review Books, 178 pp., $15.95 (paper) Josephine Hayes Dean. Alfred Hayes, Italy, circa 1944. Love bade me welcome. Yet my soul drew backGuilty of dust and sin. —George Herbert. Over a period of some fifty-odd years Alfred Hayes worked as a reporter, a screenwriter, a novelist, and a poet. When he died in 1985 he left behind seven ...

  4. Jul 18, 2019 · In Love. by Alfred Hayes. Penguin, 120 pp., £7.99, January 2018, 978 0 241 30713 7. ‘D ark, Dantean , witty’, Alfred Hayes saw himself as personifying ‘a new sort of “young generation”, the lyric poet of the New York working class, of the strike front, the writer of sketches that bite into the memory’. Born in London in 1911 to a ...

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  5. Jun 15, 2020 · Reissue Of 'The End of Me' Helps Cement Alfred Hayes' Status As A Great Novelist A poet, novelist and screenwriter, Hayes' name largely fell from view following his death in 1985. Now, with the re ...

  6. Mar 25, 2021 · On Alfred Hayes. Sex, Noir & Isolation from the March 25, 2021 issue. To the Editors: Vivian Gornick has written a beautiful and significant review about three novels by my father, Alfred Hayes [“Sex, Noir & Isolation,” NYR, March 25]. I am so very pleased and grateful to Gornick for her fresh insights and compelling interpretation of his ...

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  8. Oct 31, 2015 · Alfred Hayes (18 April 1911 – 14 August 1985) was a British screenwriter, television writer, novelist, and poet, who worked in Italy and the United States. He is perhaps best known for his poem "Joe Hill" ("I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night…"), later set to music by Earl Robinson.

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