Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Belgian-born, 42-year-old Georges Simenon (real name: Georges Sim) is one of the world's most prolific authors. Before turning to "serious" fiction (of which The Shadow Falls is supposedly an example) he wrote 300-odd pulp novels and thrillers, including the stories which made his Inspector Maigret one of fiction's most famed detectives. But last spring the gumshoe was on the other foot. Sleuthhound Simenon was snapped up by Paris police and indicted. The charge: "intelligence with the enemy" during the German occupation...
...Howard made her living as a pulp writer for ten years. But since marrying and settling down in Winter Haven, Fla. in 1931, her total literary income has been $6.50-for an article in a trade magazine on her favorite thesis of "If you can't write what you want, why write at all?" Her double bonanza did not overwhelm her. Said she: "You never know. I had a feeling this might be my year for making...
Along with the pulp books, Street & Smith built pulp magazines (Ainslee's, Top Notch, etc.), which kept going when the penny-dreadful fad passed. Some, like Western Story, still have a cozy 400,000 circulation. They have followed every change in public taste from the Western plains to the sea, to the air, to cops & robbers, and back to cowboys. At the crest, when it sold 95 million magazines and pulps a year, S. & S. had a stable of such writers as Upton Sinclair (who wrote under the name of Ensign Clark Fitch, U.S.N.), Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton...
...from Pulp. Just like the dime novel, the pulp magazines had their...
Prolific Mother. At 50, with no pre vious experience, she began to pour out volume after volume of remunerative fiction and travelogue. Most of the characters she introduced were old friends and acquaintances: "Of course," she said airily, "I always pulp (them) before serving them up. You would never recognize a pig in a sausage." This was no consolation to the American public, which foamed at the sprightly invective and caricature in Mrs. Trollope's first book, Domestic Man ners of the Americans. The book was a financial success, but not sufficiently so to relieve the author...