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Hired Pens: Professional Writers in America's Golden Age of Print
By Ronald Weber
340 pages
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- Ohio University Press
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- Athens, OH
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- 1997
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Synopsis
"Hired Pens tells the story of the class of full-time independent professional writers who emerged in America in the 1830s and '40s and flourished during the great age of print that began after the Civil War and continued into the 1960s. While most accounts of the writing life focus on high-culture artists, Hired Pens treats authors who pursued the shifting popular tastes of Grub Street. Likewise it treats a literary marketplace that includes not only novels and poetry but gift annuals, story papers, ...
"Hired Pens tells the story of the class of full-time independent professional writers who emerged in America in the 1830s and '40s and flourished during the great age of print that began after the Civil War and continued into the 1960s. While most accounts of the writing life focus on high-culture artists, Hired Pens treats authors who pursued the shifting popular tastes of Grub Street. Likewise it treats a literary marketplace that includes not only novels and poetry but gift annuals, story papers, general-circulation magazines, dime novels, pulp and slick magazines, newspaper syndicates, and paperback originals." Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- CONTENTS ix
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
- Prologue CLEVER AUTHORS OF ACCEPTABLE WORK - Living by Words on America's Grub Street 1
- One Light Artillery of the Intellect - The Emergence of the Versatile Magazinists 13
- Two Cacoethes Scribendi - Women Writers among the Paying Periodicals 38
- Three Laying Pipes Fiction Factories at Full Throttle 62
- Four That Precious Over-Note - Fictioneers among the Pulps, Slicks, and Paperback Originals 85
- Five Sublime Tramps - Newspaper Journalism and the Dream of the Writing Life 111
- Six Writing for the Millions - Newspaper Syndicates Expand the Market 133
- Seven Sporting Life Field, Stream, and Playing Field as Material 152
- Eight Facts of the Matter the Vogue of Biography, History, and Current Events 172
- Nine Brass Tacks How to Succeed at the Writing Game 195
- Ten Gatekeepers Dominant Editors in the Glory Days of Magazines 217
- Epilogue SWEET DEAL Writing for Hire in a New Age 249
- NOTES 259
- Title Page iii
- CONTENTS ix
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
- Prologue CLEVER AUTHORS OF ACCEPTABLE WORK - Living by Words on America's Grub Street 1
- One Light Artillery of the Intellect - The Emergence of the Versatile Magazinists 13
- Two Cacoethes Scribendi - Women Writers among the Paying Periodicals 38
- Three Laying Pipes Fiction Factories at Full Throttle 62
- Four That Precious Over-Note - Fictioneers among the Pulps, Slicks, and Paperback Originals 85
- Five Sublime Tramps - Newspaper Journalism and the Dream of the Writing Life 111
- Six Writing for the Millions - Newspaper Syndicates Expand the Market 133
- Seven Sporting Life Field, Stream, and Playing Field as Material 152
- Eight Facts of the Matter the Vogue of Biography, History, and Current Events 172
- Nine Brass Tacks How to Succeed at the Writing Game 195
- Ten Gatekeepers Dominant Editors in the Glory Days of Magazines 217
- Epilogue SWEET DEAL Writing for Hire in a New Age 249
- NOTES 259
- SOURCES 291
- INDEX 303
- A Note about the Author 317
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