(New York, NY), 1929. Poems, Dynamo (New York, NY), 1935. Dead Reckoning: A Book of Poetry, Random House (New York, NY), 1938. Collected Poems of Kenneth Fearing, Random House, 1940. Afternoon of a Pawnbroker and Other Poems, Harcourt (New York City), 1943. Stranger at Coney Island and Other Poems, Harcourt, 1948. New and Selected Poems, Indiana University Press (Bloomington), 1956. Complete Poems, ed. Robert M. Ryley, National Poetry Foundation (Orono, Maine), 1994. Novels The Hospital, Random House, 1939. Dagger of the Mind, Random House, 1941, as Cry Killer!, Avon (New York, NY), 1958. Clark Gifford's Body, Random House, 1942. The Big Clock, Harcourt, 1946, as No Way Out, Perennial (New York, NY), 1980. New York : New York Review Books, 2006, introduction by Nicholas Christopher, ; Die große Uhr : ein Klassiker des Noir-Thrillers, herausgegeben von Martin Compart ; Übertragung ins Deutsche Jakob Vandenberg, Coesfeld : Elsinor, 2023, (With Donald Friede and H. Bedford Jones under joint pseudonym Donald F. Bedford) John Barry, Creative Age Press (New York, NY), 1947. Loneliest Girl in the World, Harcourt, 1951, as The Sound of Murder, Spivak (New York, NY), 1952. The Generous Heart, Harcourt, 1954. The Crozart Story, Doubleday, 1960. Essays "Reading, Writing, and the Rackets." New and Selected Poems. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1956, ix–xxiv. "The Situation in American Writing: Seven Questions." Partisan Review, Summer 1939, 33–35. References Further reading External links (including The Big Clock) Poetry Foundation: Biography "Brother Can You Spare a Biff, Bam, Oof!!!: Kenneth Fearing's hard-boiled poetry" by Robert Polito "And Wow He Died As Wow He Lived: Kenneth Fearing, the Federal Writers Project, and the depths of the Great Depression" by Jason Boog "Not Yet: Daisy Fried on Kenneth Fearing" by Daisy Fried "Damned Good Poet: Kenneth Fearing" by Mark Halliday 1902 births 1961 deaths 20th-century American poets 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American novelists American male poets American male novelists American magazine editors Novelists from Illinois Novelists from New York (state) Writers from Chicago Writers from Oak Park, Illinois University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni Deaths from melanoma Deaths from cancer in New York (state) Burials at Forest Home Cemetery, Chicago