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“Tired Pens” A Review Of Ronald Weber, Hired Pens - Professional Writers In America’S Golden Age Of Print, Susanna Ashton
“Tired Pens” A Review Of Ronald Weber, Hired Pens - Professional Writers In America’S Golden Age Of Print, Susanna Ashton
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Is it depressing or inspiring to discover that everyone work harder than you do? After reading Hired Pens: Professional Writers in America's Golden Age of Print, one will be forced either to the keyboard or the couch. Virtually every page of this excruciatingly detailed study chronicles people who measured out their lives by their word count. We learn that Zane Grey churned out over eighty books and was never off the best-seller lists between 1917-1925. Frederick Faust published 25 million words of fiction under at least 20 different names, not the least of which was Max Brand. Janet Dailey …