11 Facts About Cornell Woolrich

Cornell George Hopley Woolrich was an American novelist and short story writer.

Cornell Woolrich sometimes used the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley.

Cornell Woolrich's parents separated when he was young, and he lived for a time in Mexico with his father before returning to New York to live with his mother, Claire Attalie Woolrich.

Cornell Woolrich attended Columbia University but left in 1926 without graduating when his first novel, Cover Charge, was published.

When he turned to pulp and detective fiction, Cornell Woolrich's output was so prolific his work was often published under one of his many pseudonyms.

Cornell Woolrich returned to New York, where he and his mother moved into the Hotel Marseilles.

Cornell Woolrich moved later to the Sheraton-Russell on Park Avenue and became a virtual recluse.

Cornell Woolrich did not attend the premiere of Truffaut's film of his novel The Bride Wore Black in 1968, even though it was held in New York City.

Cornell Woolrich bequeathed his estate of about $850,000 to Columbia University to endow scholarships in his mother's memory for writing students.

Cornell Woolrich's papers are kept at the Columbia University Libraries.

Cornell Woolrich died leaving fragments of an unfinished novel, titled The Loser; fragments have been published separately and collected in Tonight, Somewhere in New York.