Cornell Woolrich was born in 1903. In the 1920s, while at Columbia University, he began writing novels and went on to become one of the founders of the "noir genre" in the 1930s and 40s, alongside Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain. He wrote classic suspense novels referred to as the "noir series," including *Rear Window* and *I Married a Dead Man*. Cornell Woolrich passed away in 1968 due to excessive drinking.