Word: gollancz
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...Archibald Joseph Cronin. A Scottish medico of 34, his writing apprenticeship was served in concocting such unlikely sellers as A History of Aneurism, Dust-Inhalation by Haematite Miners, First Aid in Coal Mines. He took a vacation last summer, wrote Hatter's Castle in some three strenuous months. Gollancz, first English publisher to see the MS, accepted it with cheers. So did the Book Society of London. Though Dr. Cronin served in the surgical corps during the War, has traveled widely, has been down 500 coal mines in the course of research work, he thinks his most exciting experience...