Download or read book Walt Whitman written by Joel Myerson and published by Detroit [Mich.] : Gale Group. This book was released on 2000 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on American writers whose lives and careers span the history of hard-boiled writing, from its birth in American pulp magazines of the 1920s to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Characteristic of this writing is an objective viewpoint, impersonal tone, violent action, colloquial speech, tough characters and understated style, usually but not limited to detective or crime fiction.