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Tear Off the Binding. Anhalt and his wife split up after finishing The Pride and the Passion. But on his own, the talented wordsmith has stayed in constant demand. He finished The Young Lions ("by actual account, it was the fourteenth attempt by nine writers"), struck out on Walter Wanger's Cleopatra after nine days, but made good with Not as a Stranger, an almost textbook example of Anhalt's method...
...name and under eleven pen names, Wordsmith Creasey has published 366 novels, many of them whodunits, which have sold more than 18 million copies in the last 29 years. Creasey often turns out a 60,000-word novel in six days, has written as many as 15 a year. Asked to give an explanation for the rate of production, he once modestly replied: "I can type with only two fingers...
...most Americans the names of at least two of the Skipper's three mates meant little. (Sam Rosenman was well known as F.D.R.'s wordsmith.) But, in influence, they were among the most important people in the U.S. Along with grey, cautious Leslie L. Biffle, Secretary of the Senate, and tightlipped, banker-minded Reconversion Director John W. Snyder, they are the men closest to Harry Truman, those he considers to be his true-blue loyals...
...pomposity, its facility, its jaw-dislocating decasyllabics, and by the fact that it had been written by a person not yet adolescent, wrote a letter to the editor of the New York World in which she intimated certain things about Joseph Auslander, author of Sunrise Trumpets, himself an odd wordsmith...