He attended Soldan High School, beginning his writing career early by working on the literary magazine alongside Tennessee Williams.
bill enabled him to earn a bachelor's degree in psychology from Columbia University, where he also studied fiction writing under prominent Southern Agrarian novelist Caroline Gordon.
[1] His first novel Walk the Dark Streets (1949), was nominated for an Edgar Award[2] and was adapted as an episode of the television series Studio One in Hollywood.
Raymond Chandler praised Krasner’s mystery fiction in a 1951 letter to Frederic Dannay: “[I]t may also happen that single book, such as ...
[7] Krasner also published two realistic urban novels, The Gambler (1950) and North of Welfare (1954) and one work of historical fiction, Francis Parkman: Dakota Legend (1982).