Gain Access To Hired Pens: Professional Writers In Americas Golden Age Of Print Executed By Ronald Weber Disseminated As Pamphlet

as massmarket magazines and cheap books have played important roles in the creation of an American identity, those skilled craftsmen and women whose careers are the subjects of Ronald Weber's narrative profoundly influenced the outlook and strategies of the highculture writers who are generally the focus of literary studies.

Hired Pens, a history of the writing profession in the United States, recognizes the place of independent writers who wrote for their livelihood, from thes and's, with the first appearance of a broadbased print culture, to thes.

Many realist authors began on this American Grub Street, Jack London turned out hackwork for any paying market he could find, while Scott Fitzgerald's stories in slick magazines in thes and early 's established his name as a writer.

From Edgar Allan Poe's earliest forays into writing for pay to Sylvia Plath's attempts to produce fiction for masscirculation journals, Hired

Pens documents without agenda the evolution of professional writing in all its permutations travel accounts, sports, popular biography and history, genre and series fiction and the culture that it fed.

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