![]() David Goodis's mother, Mollie Halpern, was born in Pennsylvania also into a family of Russian-Jewish émigrés. William Goodis was a Russian-Jewish émigré born in 1882 who had arrived in America with his mother in 1890. Goodis was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the oldest child of William Goodis and Mollie Halpern Goodis. According to critic Dennis Drabelle, "Despite his education, a combination of ethnicity (Jewish) and temperament allowed him to empathize with outsiders: the working poor, the unjustly accused, fugitives, criminals." Biography Early life Born in Philadelphia, Goodis alternately resided there and in New York City and Hollywood during his professional years. ![]() David Loeb Goodis (Ma– January 7, 1967) was an American writer of crime fiction noted for his output of short stories and novels in the noir fiction genre. ![]()
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