W. R. Burnett cover gallery

 (* The following brief introduction is an extract from one of the essays in Mean Streetmaps.)

William Riley Burnett was born in Springfield, Ohio, on 25 November 1899, the son of Theodore Addison Burnett and Emily Upson Colwell Morgan. He attended grammar schools in Springfield and Dayton, then moved to Columbus where he spent two years at East High School; he graduated at the age of nineteen