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Whatever you wish to say about the merits of my current novel, The Chapman Report, is your privilege. However, this novel was a total personal creative effort, seriously approached. Your statement that the book was hatched by Victor Weybright of Signet is an absolute lie. The book was partially written when Weybright offered to buy future reprint rights, in advance, sight unseen. Neither he nor anyone else had anything to do with the book or saw a word of it until it was completed...
...Most books thought up by publishers or moviemakers and farmed out to authors. Irving Wallace's The Chapman Report, old publishing hands insist, was hatched by Victor Weybright of the New American Library and reads like the hack job it is. Rona Jaffe's soap-slick The Best of Everything was written to the specifications of Film Producer Jerry Wald. It is possible to write a non-novel without any lightning from Olympus; Henry Morton Robinson accomplished it this year with Water of Life, a book he thought up all by himself as a cynical imitation of Taylor...
...VICTOR WEYBRIGHT...
...Victor Weybright wrote in the February Survey Graphic: "That 200,000 newcomers to the Federal service have been exempt from civil service in the past three years has alarmed critics of bureaucracy...