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Day Keene
Life Time
28 March 1904 - 9 January 1969
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Day Keen (real name Gunard Hierstedt) was born in 1904, on the southern outskirts of Chicago (USA). His father was engaged in the supply of road construction materials. The future writer began his career as an actor in the repertory theater; there he was not without success writing plays. When his friends-actors offered to star with them in films, he, however, decided to turn to drama and began to write soap operas for the radio. In the 1930s, Day Keen was the lead writer for the radio show Orphan
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Day Keen (real name Gunard Hierstedt) was born in 1904, on the southern outskirts of Chicago (USA). His father was engaged in the supply of road construction materials. The future writer began his career as an actor in the repertory theater; there he was not without success writing plays. When his friends-actors offered to star with them in films, he, however, decided to turn to drama and began to write soap operas for the radio. In the 1930s, Day Keen was the lead writer for the radio show Orphan Annie. Since the 1940s, he began to compose detective novels, began to be printed in magazines, his works appeared in the popular series “Black Mask” and “Detective for Dime”. In the late 1940s, in search of a better life, Day Keen moved to the then sparsely populated west coast of Florida, where he continued to compose "police" and crime novels, which enjoyed notable success with readers. In the 1960s, he moved away from detective themes, wrote novels "mainstream". Day Keen died in 1969 in North Hollywood.