Horace McCoy.

Charlton Heston and
Dianne Foster in Bad 
for Each Other (writ.
Horace McCoy, 1953)

On the occasion of the publication of Horace McCoy's They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935) by the British Serpent's Tail Classics, John Self looks at McCoy's "skinny and brutal account of existence at the edge of Depression America."