CONTENTS Why Authors Go Wrong A Barbaric Yawp In the Critical Court Book "Reviewing" Literary Editors, by One of Them What Every Publisher Knows The Secret of the Best Seller Writing a Novel Grant Martin Overton (1887-1930) was the author of a number of books, including Women Who Make Our Novels and Portrait of a Publisher.
Grant Martin Overton (1887-1930) was an American book and magazine editor and author of literary criticism, biography and fiction. He held the position of books editor for the New York Sun from 1910-22, was an editor at the publisher George H Doran Co from 1922-24, and then served as fiction editor on Collier's Weekly from 1924-30. This novel was first published in 1920.
The subject of this sketch is Mr. William Worthen Appleton, the third generation of a famous American publishing house, but the circumstances compel me to try for something more. And this for the reason that Mr. Appleton lived to see a typical American transformation. When he was admitted to his father's and grandfather's firm, in 1868, book publishing, like most American businesses, was a success of personal initiative and private enterprise. When he died, fifty-five years later, although individual energy and ability were as valuable as ever, something large and impersonal had arisen that no individual could absolutely control. He understood that, with the wisdom of all those great hearts who know that nothing is created alone and who desire only that the thing created shall be greater than they and more durable than the days of a man." Grant Martin Overton (1887-1930) was the author of a number of books, including Women Who Make Our Novels and Why Authors Go Wrong: and Other Explanations.
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CONTENTS: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Gertrude Atherton Mary Austin Temple Bailey Faith Baldwin Margaret Culkin Banning E. Barrington (L. Adams Beck) Nalbro Bartley Mary Borden Alice Brown Frances Hodgson Burnett Clara Louise Burnham Dorothy Canfield Dorothy Walworth Carman Willa Cather Nathalie Sedgwick Colby Harriet T. Comstock Margaret Deland Mazo De La Roche Susan Ertz Janet A. Fairbank Mateel Howe Farnham Edna Ferber Esther Forbes Zona Gale Ellen Glasgow Anna Katharine Green Corra Harris Helen R. Hull Fannie Hurst Inez Haynes Irwin Mary Johnston Sophie Kerr Helen R. Martin Eleanor Mercein (Mrs. Kelly) Alice Duer Miller Lois Seyster Montross Honore Willsie Morrow Frances Newman Kathleen Norris Marie Conway Oemler Martha Ostenso Anne Parrish Julia Peterkin Eleanor H. Porter Olive Higgins Prouty Alice Hegan Rice Grace S. Richmond Mary Roberts Rinehart Elizabeth Madox Roberts Emanie N. Sachs Dorothy Scarborough Evelyn Scott Anne Douglas Sedgwick Elsie Singmaster Gene Stratton-Porter Demetra Vaka Mary Heaton Vorse Mary E. Waller Mary S. Watts Edith Wharton Margaret Widdemer Kate Douglas Wiggin Elinor Wylie Grant Martin Overton (1887-1930) was the author of a number of books, including Portrait of a Publisher and Why Authors Go Wrong: and Other Explanations.
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