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Submitted by Douglas Newsom on 19 April 2021

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LetterZ From the Pen with Nikia Hughes-Cousins and Dee
Guest, Eddie Muller is the founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation and is co-programmer of the San Francisco Noir City film festival.

Eddie Muller is considered a noir expert and is called on to write and talk about the film genre, notably on wry commentary tracks for Fox's film noir series of DVDs and introducing Turner Classic Movies weekly "Noir Alley" movie block. Every Saturday, Noir Alley visits classic noir films featuring some of the best set-ups and shake downs involving iconic antiheroes and the unforgettable, fatalistic dames they fall for.

Laura Sheppard, director of events at Mechanics Institute, dubbed him "The Czar of Noir"

Muller based the character of Billy Nichols in his period crime novel The Distance after his father. The novel was named the Best First Novel of 2002 by the Private Eye Writers of America. Billy Nichols returned in the 2003 novel Shadow Boxer.