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professional writers in America's Golden Age of print

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An edition of Hired pens (1997)

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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Ohio University Press
Language
English
Pages
315

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Subjects

American literature, Authors and publishers, Authorship, Economic aspects, Economic aspects of Authorship, History, History and criticism, Journalism, Literature publishing, New York Times reviewed, Authors, american, Publishers and publishing, united states

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United States

Times

19th century, 20th century
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Hired pens: professional writers in America's Golden Age of print
1997, Ohio University Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-302) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
808/.02/0973
Library of Congress
PS88 .W37 1997, PS88.W37 1997

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Pagination
315 p. ;
Number of pages
315

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OL670170M
Internet Archive
hiredpensprofess00webe
ISBN 10
0821412043, 0821412051
LCCN
97016071
OCLC/WorldCat
36969669
Library Thing
1157730
Goodreads
2396759

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