West of Fifth
$40.00 USD • Used
DETAILS NEEDED. Novel about "a girl press agent who knew what she wanted and got it." Catharine Brody was a newspaper and magazine writer before directing her efforts to fiction in the 1920s. She ...
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DETAILS NEEDED. Novel about "a girl press agent who knew what she wanted and got it." Catharine Brody was a newspaper and magazine writer before directing her efforts to fiction in the 1920s. She began modestly, with a digest-sized pulp novel called "Why Girls Go Back Home" (also published serially), but really got going in the late 1920s with "Babe Evanson," a tale of a New York office-girl; "West of Fifth" was her next book, and obviously drew on her journalistic experience. After the Depression hit, she turned out a couple of quasi-proletarian novels -- "Nobody Starves" (centered around a couple trying to make a go of it as factory workers in Detroit) and "Cash Item" (about the repercussions of a bank failure) -- but although both were well-received, she appears to have then more or less dropped off the literary map. I've run down references to a couple of syndicated newspaper short stories circa 1936, a couple of articles in the slicks in 1938, and a "vignette" in a 1944 issue of Liberty, and that's it; no obituary has yet turned up, nor any significant biographical information (apart from the fact that she was born in Latvia). What became of her, I wonder
Product Info
Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.
Year: 1930
Type: Used
Binding: Hardcover
First Edition
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