Graydon
Proper noun
Meaning
Graydon
A surname.
Anagrams
Examples
Ballinger and Graydon (2007), p. 20; Schatz (1981), pp. 116–22; Ottoson (1981), p. 2. Italian neorealism of the 1940s, with its emphasis on quasi-documentary authenticity, was an acknowledged influence on trends that emerged in American noir.
Ballinger and Graydon (2007), pp. 217–18; Hirsch (2001), p. 64. In the popular (and, frequently enough, critical) imagination, in noir it is always night and it always rains.
Ballinger and Graydon (2007), p. 41. Though several late classic noirs, Kiss Me Deadly in particular, were deeply self-knowing and post-traditional in conception, none tipped its hand so evidently as to be remarked on by American critics at the time.
However, reports she left the magazine in 2018 and currently works for Air Mail, which was founded by former Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon Carter.
Graydon Miller is the author of the acclaimed story collection, “The Havana Brotherhood” and contributing editor to the bi-lingual anthology, 80 mph.
For overview of Welles's noirs, see, e.g., Ballinger and Graydon (2007), pp. 210–11.