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ISBN-10: 0821412051
ISBN-13: 9780821412053
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Publish Date: 12/31/1997
Dimensions: 9.00" L, 6.06" W, 0.84" H

Hired Pens: Professional Writers in America’s Golden Age of Print

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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.

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Those interested in the crazy business of writing will find Hired Pens an illuminating addition to their library.–The New York Times Book Review
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Details

ISBN-10: 0821412051
ISBN-13: 9780821412053
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Publish Date: 12/31/1997
Dimensions: 9.00" L, 6.06" W, 0.84" H
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