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Alexander Humphreys Woollcott (January 19, 1887 – January 23, 1943) was an American critic and commentator for The New Yorker magazine, and a member of the Algonquin Round Table. He was the inspiration for Sheridan Whiteside, the main character in the play The Man Who Came to Dinner by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, and for the far less likable character Waldo Lydecker in the classic film Laura. He claimed to be the inspiration for Rex Stout's brilliant detective Nero Wolfe, but Stout discounted this. Woollcott's review of the Marx Brothers' Broadway debut, I'll Say She Is, helped highlight the renaissance of the group's career and started a life-long friendship with Harpo Marx. Two of Harpo's adopted sons are named William (Bill) Woollcott Marx and Alexander Marx after him.

Original Alexander Woollcott Autograph, hand signed on Heavy Card Stock. Approx. Size of Paper 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. Regular Price - $ 395.00 / Sale Price - $ 248.95.

Albert Bigelow Paine (10 July 1861 – 9 April 1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain. Paine was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Committee and wrote in several genres, including fiction, humour, and verse. Paine was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts and moved to Bentonsport, Iowa at the age of 1. He later moved to St. Louis, where he trained as a photographer, and became a dealer in photographic supplies in Fort Scott, Kansas. Paine sold up in 1895 to become a full-time writer, moving to New York. He spent most of his life living in Europe, including a time in France where he wrote two books about Joan of Arc. This work was so well received in France that he was awarded the title of Chevalier in the Légion d'honneur by the French government. Paine wrote several children's books, the first of which was published in 1898. He went on to write about his travelling adventures, including The Tent Dwellers, written about a trout fishing trip to Nova Scotia. His 1901 book The Great White Way written about the Arctic indirectly gave New York City's Broadway the name "Great White Way" He was the official biographer and literary executor for Mark Twain, and worked with him (and on his behalf after his death) on various projects. His work on Twain's unfinished story The Mysterious Stranger saw him combine three versions of the story into one. Paine was married to Dora and had three daughters.

Original Albert Bigelow Paine Autograph, signed on a Hand Written Letter on St. Nicholas Editorial Rooms 33 East 17th St. N.Y. Approx. Size 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches. Regular Price - $ 125.00 / Sale Price - $ 65.00.

Original Milton C. Work Autographed Typed Letter, Milton C. Work Letterhead. Latest book on contract one hundred and one celebrated hands - President U.S. Bridge Association - Member of Committee that drafted the international contract laws. Milton C. Work. Typed on Letter: March 16, 1934. Mr. Frank Trickler, 5656 Beaumont Avenue, West Philadelphia, Pa. Dear Mr. Trickler: In reply to your recent request for an autograph, I am enclosing one on a card that you sent me and hope that my wish for good luck will come true. I am not a smoker so it is impossible for me to enclose a cigar band, and I do not happen to have any of my photographs at hand. With my best wishes, I am Yours very sincerely, Milton C. Work. The playing card is autographed & dated 3/16/34. Approx. Size 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Regular Price - $ 135.00 / Sale Price - $ 74.95.

Edgar Albert Guest (August 20, 1881, Birmingham, England – August 5, 1959, Detroit, Michigan) (aka Eddie Guest) was a prolific American poet who was popular in the first half of the 20th century and became known as the People’s Poet. In 1891, Guest came with his family to the United States from England. After he began at the Detroit Free Press as a copy boy and then a reporter, his first poem appeared December 11, 1898. He became a naturalized citizen in 1902. For 40 years, Guest was widely read throughout North America, and his sentimental, optimistic poems were in the same vein as the light verse of Nick Kenny, who wrote syndicated columns during the same decades. From his first published work in the Detroit Free Press until his death in 1959, Guest penned some 11,000 poems which were syndicated in some 300 newspapers and collected in more than 20 books, including A Heap o' Livin' (1916) and Just Folks (1917). Guest was made Poet Laureate of Michigan, the only poet to have been awarded the title. His popularity led to a weekly Detroit radio show which he hosted from 1931 until 1942, followed by a 1951 NBC television series, A Guest in Your Home. When Guest died in 1959, he was buried in Detroit's Woodlawn Cemetery. His work still occasionally appears in periodicals such as Reader's Digest, and some favorites, such as "Myself" and "Thanksgiving," are still studied today. Guest received a mention in Lemony Snicket's The Grim Grotto, though not in a particularly favorable manner. His great-niece Judith Guest is a successful novelist who wrote Ordinary People.

Original Edgar Albert Guest Autograph, signed on a A Heap o' Livin' Fly Leaf. Written on fly leaf: Sincerley yours Edgar A Guest Dec. 22, 1916. Approx. Size of Fly Leaf 5 x 7 3/8 inches. Regular Price - $ 95.00 / Sale Price - $ 42.00.

Howard Pease (1894 - 1974) wrote from personal experience reflected in how Tod Moran (about 15 of his works were based upon the character William Todhunter Moran) first started to sea, as a summer job while he was attending Stanford University in Palo Alto CA. Even as a small boy the sea always attracted Howard Pease. Maybe because he lived on inland soil, out of sight of the fogs of the coast, yet on a river that flowed into San Francisco Bay. Born in Stockton, California, he finished high school there and then entered Stanford University. At the end of his freshman year he found himself enlisted in a university unit which was sent early to France. Two years later he returned to Stanford where he remained off and on until graduation. Writing had been Mr. Pease's main object and interest ever since the sixth grade and because he had no wish to write and starve in a garret, he now chose teaching as a profession, since it gave him long vacations in which to work at his typewriter. The sea, too, still attracted him. One summer he shipped out as a wiper in the engine room of a freighter-one of the few ship jobs an inexperienced youth can get. During Mr. Pease's first year of teaching school he started The Tattooed Man. It was the result of two voyages, together with a walking trip from Marseilles along the coast to Italy. The Jinx Ship was the result of another voyage. His book, The Ship Without a Crew, was written after a tropical winter in Tahiti and Highroad to Adventure after an automobile trip along the Pan-American Highway to Mexico. With his wife and son, Mr. Pease lived in San Francisco on a hill near the Golden Gate, where he devoted all his working hours to writing. Original Howard Pease Autograph, signed on a Heart of Danger Fly Leaf. Approx. Size of Fly Leaf 3 3/8 x 7 3/4 inches. Regular Price - $ 95.00 / Sale Price - $ 42.00.

Lowell Jackson Thomas (April 6, 1892 – August 29, 1981) was an American writer, broadcaster, and traveller best known as the man who made Lawrence of Arabia famous. So varied were Thomas's activities that when it came time for the Library of Congress to catalog his memoirs they were forced to put them in "CT" in their classification -- biographies of subjects who don't fit into any other category. Books by Lowell: With Lawrence in Arabia, 1924 The First World Flight, 1925 Beyond Khyber Pass, 1925 Count Luckner, The Sea Devil, 1927 European Skyways, 1927 The Boy's Life of Colonel Lawrence, 1927 Adventures in Afghanistan for Boys, 1928 Raiders of the Deep, 1928 The Sea Devil's Fo'c'sle, 1929 Woodfill of the Regulars, 1929 The Hero of Vincennes: the Story of George Rogers Clark, 1929 The Wreck of the Dumaru, 1930 Lauterbach of the China Sea, 1930 India--Land of the Black Pagoda, 1930 Rolling Stone, 1931 Tall Stories, 1931 Kabluk of the Eskimo, 1932 This Side of Hell, 1932 Old Gimlet Eye: The Adventures of General Smedley Butler, 1933 Born to Raise Hell, 1933 The Untold Story of Exploration, 1935 Fan Mail, 1935 A Trip to New York With Bobby and Betty, 1936 Men of Danger, 1936 Kipling Stories and a Life of Kipling, 1936 Seeing Canada With Lowell Thomas, 1936 Seeing India With Lowell Thomas, 1936 Seeing Japan With Lowell Thomas, 1937 Seeing Mexico With Lowell Thomas, 1937 Adventures Among the Immortals, 1937 Hungry Waters, 1937 Wings Over Asia, 1937 Magic Dials, 1939 In New Brunswick We'll Find It, 1939 Soft Ball! So What?, 1940 How To Keep Mentally Fit, 1940 Stand Fast for Freedom, 1940 Pageant of Adventure, 1940 Pageant of Life, 1941 Pageant of Romance, 1943 These Men Shall Never Die, 1943 Out of this World: Across the Himalayas to Tibet (1951) Back to Mandalay, 1951 Great True Adventures, 1955 The Story of the New York Thruway, 1955 Seven Wonders of the World, 1956 History As You Heard It 1957 The Story of the St. Lawrence Seaway, 1957 The Vital Spark, 1959 Sir Hubert Wilkins, A Biography, 1961 More Great True Adventures, 1963 Book of the High Mountains, 1964 Famous First Flights That Changed History, 1968 Burma Jack, 1971 Doolittle: A Biography, 1976 Good Evening Everybody: From Cripple Creek to Samarkand, 1976 So Long Until Tomorrow, 1977

Original Lowell Thomas Autograph, signed on a Beyond Khyber Pass Fly Leaf. Autograph is in green ink. Approx. Size of Fly Leaf 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches. Regular Price -$ 145.00 / Sale Price - $ 74.95.

Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams.

Original Booth Tarkington Autograph, Signed on Card Stock. Approx. Size 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. Regular Price - $ 300.00 / Sale Price - $ 124.95.

James Oliver Curwood, (June 12, 1878 – August 13, 1927), was an American novelist and conservationist. A great number of his works were turned into movies, several of which starred Nell Shipman as a brave and adventurous woman in the wilds of the north. Many films from Curwood's writings were made during his lifetime, as well as after his passing through to the 1950s. In 1988 French director Jean-Jacques Annaud used his 1916 novel, The Grizzly King to make the film The Bear. Annaud's success generated a renewed interest in Curwood's stories that resulted in five more films being produced in 1994 and 1995. Born in Owosso, Michigan he left high school without graduating but was able to pass the entrance exams to the University of Michigan where he studied journalism. In 1900, Curwood sold his first story while working for the Detroit News-Tribune. By 1909 he had saved enough money to travel to the Canadian northwest, a trip that provided the inspiration for his wilderness adventure stories. The success of his novels afforded him the opportunity to return to the Yukon and Alaska for several months each year that allowed him to write more than thirty such books. By 1922, Curwood's writings had made him a very wealthy man and he fulfilled a childhood fantasy by building Curwood Castle in Owosso. Constructed in the style of an 18th century French chateau, the estate overlooked the Shiawassee River. In one of the home's two large turrets, Curwood set up his writing studio. Curwood also owned a camp in a remote area in Baraga County, Michigan, near the Huron Mountains. An advocate of environmentalism, Curwood was appointed to the Michigan Conservation Commission in 1926. The following year, while on a Florida fishing trip, Curwood was bitten on the thigh by what was believed to have been a spider and had an immediate allergic reaction. Health problems related to the bite escalated over the next few months and infection set in that led to his death from blood poisoning. Interred in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Owosso, his Curwood Castle is now a museum. During the first full weekend in June of each year, the city of Owosso holds the Curwood Festival to celebrate the city's heritage . Also in his honor, a mountain in L'Anse Township, Michigan was given the name Mount Curwood, and the L'Anse Township Park was renamed Curwood Park. Original James Oliver Curwood Autograph, Signed on Cut Paper. Approx. Size 3 x 4 3/4 inches. Hand written: James Oliver Curwood Owosso Michigan 1922. Regular Price - $ 135.00 / Sale Price - $ 74.95.

Kristin Elaine Hunter (b. September 12, 1931) is an African American writer from Pennsylvania. She has sometimes written under the name Kristin Hunter Lattany. Hunter was born Kristin Eggleston in Philadelphia, attended the University of Pennsylvania, and wrote for the Pittsburgh Courier, a black newspaper, until 1952. Her first novel, God Bless the Child, was published in 1964; like most of her work, it confronts complex issues of race and gender. Books written by Kristin Hunter: God Bless the Child, 1964. The Landlord, 1966. The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou, 1968. Guests in the Promised Land (stories), 1973. The Survivors, 1975. The Lakestown Rebellion, 1978. Lou in the Limelight, 1981. Kinfolks, 1996. Do Unto others, 2000. Original Kristin Hunter Autographed Typed letter, Approx. Size 8 1/2 x 11. Typed on Letter: 1233 Pine Street Philadelphia 7, Pa. October 31, 1963 Mr. John Wilcock 26 Perry Street New York City. Dear Mr. Wilcock: I may be more than you're bargaining for, but I'm answering your ad anyway. This September I accepted a job writing for the Philadelphia city government, and learned only two weeks later that Scribners had bought my first novel. Yesterday I learned that my agent has also sold the book to a British publisher. So a few dollars and pounds will be coming in, and I'm wondering... ...Just what am I doing facing another cold winter in Philadelphia, with another career job on my hands(I spent nine years in advertising), when I obviously ought to be in a lovely warm place like Mexico or Puerto Rico, finishing that play and those poems, and starting another novel? Well, because it's hard for a girl to take off for the unknown alone, and also because I have trouble overcoming my upbringing, i.e. the middle-class habit of making money. Your assignment might be just the incentive I need. You should be fully warned that I'm always involved in creative projects of my own. But I would give respectful and responsible attention to your work. I'm a fast typist, though I don't know shorthand, and a superb writer. I'm divorced, 30 and getting younger, slightly colored and extremely healthy. My new job is fun, possibly because I tend to think most things are fun, and my new apartment is elegant, but Philadelphia is a graveyard, as the Voice and your lively column remind me every week. So I invite you to induce me to leave it all behind. I'll be in New York soon to see my publisher, and would look foward to meeting you then, even if nothing further comes of it. Sincerely yours. Kristin Hunter. Regluar Price - $ 185.00 / Sale Price - $ 98.00.

American author George Allan England was born in Nebraska in 1877 and died in New Hampshire in 1936. In between he was educated at Harvard University, where he received a masters degree in English Literature in 1903. England roamed the world as an explorer/journalist and many of his articles appeared through the 20's in The Saturday Evening Post. It was as a journalist that England first came to Newfoundland. He later wrangled his way on to a sealing vessel and wrote what Ebbitt Cutler, in his introduction to the 1969 reprint of Vikings of the Ice under the title The Greatest Hunt in the World described as "... the only detailed eyewitness description of day-by-day life aboard a wooden wall ever to be written." In 1912, England began publishing his still popular science-fiction trilogy, Darkness and Dawn. His other books include The Golden Blight (1912), The Air Trust (1915), Bill Jenkins, Buccaneer (1917), Cursed (1919), Keep Off the Grass (1919), The Flying Legion (1920), The White Wilderness (1922), Adventure Isle (1925) and Isle of Romance (1929). Original George Allan England Autograph, hand signed on paper. Approx. size 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Regular Price - $ 95.00 / Sale Price - $ 48.00.

William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. In 1856, Howells was elected as a Clerk in the State House of Representatives. In 1858, he began to work at the Ohio State Journal where he wrote poetry, short stories, and also translated pieces from French, Spanish, and German. He avidly studied German and other languages and was greatly interested in Heinrich Heine. In 1860, he visited Boston and met with American writers J. T. Fields, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Said to be rewarded for a biography of Abraham Lincoln used during the election of 1860, he gained a consulship in Venice. On Christmas Eve 1862, he married Elinor Mead at the American embassy in Paris. Upon returning to the U.S., he wrote for various magazines, including Atlantic Monthly and Harper's Magazine. From 1866, he became an assistant editor for the Atlantic Monthly and was made editor in 1871, remaining in the position until 1881. In 1869, he first met Mark Twain, which sparked a longtime friendship. Even more important for the development of his literary style--his advocacy of Realism--was his relationship with the journalist Jonathan Baxter Harrison, who in the 1870s wrote a series of articles for the Atlantic Monthly on the lives of ordinary Americans (Fryckstedt 1958). He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1872, but his literary reputation took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which described the decay of a marriage. His 1885 novel The Rise of Silas Lapham is perhaps his best known, describing the rise and fall of an American entrepreneur in the paint business. His social views were also strongly reflected in the novels Annie Kilburn (1888) and A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890). He was particularly outraged by the trials resulting from the Haymarket Riot. While known primarily as a novelist, his short story "Editha" (1905) appears in many anthologies of American literature.

Original William Dean Howells Autograph, Signed on Card Stock. Approx. Size 2 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches. Regular Price - $ 195.00 / Sale Price - $ 145.00.

Hamlin Hannibal Garland (September 14, 1860 – March 4, 1940) was an American novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his fiction involving hard-working Midwestern farmers. Born in West Salem, Wisconsin, he lived on various Midwestern farms throughout his young life, but he settled in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1884 to pursue a career in writing. His first success came in 1891 with Main-Traveled Roads, a collection of short stories inspired by his days on the farm. He serialized a biography of Ulysses S. Grant in McClure's Magazine before publishing it as a book in 1898. The same year, Garland traveled to the Yukon to witness the Klondike Gold Rush, which inspired The Trail of the Gold Seekers (1899). A prolific writer, Garland continued to publish novels, short fiction, and essays. In 1917, he published his autobiography, A Son of the Middle Border. The book's success prompted a sequel, A Daughter of the Middle Border, for which Garland won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. After two more volumes, Garland began a second series of memoirs based on his diary. Garland died at age seventy-nine, after moving to Hollywood, California, where he devoted his remaining years to investigating psychic phenomena, an enthusiasm he first undertook in 1891. He was buried in Neshonoc Cemetery in West Salem, Wisconsin. In his final book, The Mystery of the Buried Crosses (1939), he tried to defend such phenomenon and prove the legitimacy of psychic mediums. Hamlin Garland lived on a farm between Osage, and St. Ansgar, Iowa for quite some time. Many of his writings are based on this era of his life. The Hamlin Garland House in West Salem is a historical site.

Original Hamlin Garland Autograph, Signed on Heavy Card Stock. Approx. Size of Card 2 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches. Written on Card: Very Sincerely yours Hamlin Garland Dec. 4, 1907. Regular Price - $ 125.00 / Sale Price - $ 48.00.

Original Rosemary Taylor Autograph, signed on a cut Fly Leaf. Approx. Size of Cut Fly Leaf 5 x 5 1/2 inches. Hand written: All good luck to you, Rosemary Taylor. Regular Price - $ 125.00 / Sale Price - $ 48.95.

Howard Melvin Fast (11 November 1914, New York City - 12 March 2003, Old Greenwich, Connecticut) was a Jewish American novelist and television writer, who wrote also under the pen names E. V. Cunningham and Walter Ericson. Two Valleys (1933) Strange Yesterday (1934) Place in the City (1937) Conceived in Liberty; a novel of Valley Forge (1939) The Last Frontier (novel) (1941) The Unvanquished (1942) Citizen Tom Paine (1943) Freedom Road (1944) The American: A Middle Western Legend (1946) Clarkton (1947) The Children (1947) My Glorious Brothers (1948) The Proud and the Free (1950) Spartacus (1951) The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti, a New England legend (1953) Silas Timberman (1954) The Story of Lola Gregg (1956) Moses, Prince of Egypt (1958) The Winston Affair (1959) The Golden River (1960) April Morning (1961) Power (1962) Agrippa's Daughter (1964) Torquemada (1966) Sally (1967) The Crossing (1971) The Hessian (1972) The Immigrants (1977) Second Generation (1978) The Establishment (1979) The Legacy (1981) Max (1982) The Outsider (1984) The Immigrant's Daughter (1985) The Dinner Party (1987) The Pledge (1988) The Confession of Joe Cullen (1989) The Trial of Abigail Goodman (1993) Seven Days in June (1994) The Bridge Builder's Story (1995) An Independent Woman (1997) Redemption (1999) Greenwich (2000) Bunker Hill (2001) The Masao Masuto Mysteries (as E. V. Cunningham) The Case of the Angry Actress (first titled Samantha 1967) The Case of the One-Penny Orange (1977) The Case of the Russian Diplomat (1978) The Case of the Poisoned Eclairs (1979) The Case of the Sliding Pool (1981) The Case of the Kidnapped Angel (1982) The Case of the Murdered Mackenzie (1984) Original Howard Fast Autograph, signed on a Fly Leaf. Approx. Size of fly leaf 5 1/4 x 8 1/8 inches. Regular Price - $ 135.00 / Sale Price - $ 95.00.

Charles Edwin Anson Markham (April 23, 1852 - March 7, 1940) was an American poet. Poetry The Man With the Hoe and Other Poems - (1899) Lincoln and Other Poems - (1901) Gates of Paradise - (1920) Eighty Poems at Eighty - (1932) The Ballad of the Gallows Bird - (published 1960) Prose Children in Bondage (1914) California the Wonderful(1914)

Original Edwin Markham Autograph, Signed on an Envelope. Approx. Size of Envelope 3 3/4 x 5 1/2. Postmarked Staten Island Aug 1 6:30 pm 1934 N.Y. Hand written: Edwin Markham West New Brighton, NY Staton Island. Regular Price - $ 125.00 / Sale Price - $ 74.95.

Walt Mason - Born at Columbus, Ontario, April 4, 1862; son of John and Lydia Sarah (Campbell) Mason; self-educated; came to United States in 1880. Connected with Atchison Globe, 1885-87, later with Lincoln (Neb.) State Journal and other papers; editorial paragrapher Evening News, Washington, 1893; associated with William Allen White on Emporia Gazette 1907 to present. Believed to have the largest daily audience of any living writer; prose poems are published daily in more than two hundred newspapers in the United States and Canada. Republican. Unitarian. Author: Rhymes of the Range, 1910; Uncle Walt, 1910, Walt Mason's Business Prose Poems, 1911, Rippling Rhymes, 1913Original Walt Mason Autograph, Hand signed on a Rippling Rhymes Fly Leaf. Approx. Size of Fly Leaf 5 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches. Regular Price - $ 125.00 / Sale Price - $ 48.95.

Norman Kingsley Mailer was born January 31, 1923 – died November 10, 2007. Norman was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter and film director. Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, John McPhee, and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of narrative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism, but which covers the essay to the nonfiction novel. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize twice and the National Book Award once. In 1955, Mailer, together with Ed Fancher and Dan Wolf, first published The Village Voice, which began as an arts- and politics-oriented weekly newspaper initially distributed in Greenwich Village. In 2005, he won the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from The National Book Foundation. In 1948, while continuing his studies at the Sorbonne in Paris, Mailer published The Naked and the Dead, based on his military service in World War II. A New York Times best seller for 62 weeks, it was hailed by many as one of the best American wartime novels and named one of the "one hundred best novels in English language" by the Modern Library. Barbary Shore (1951) was a surreal parable of Cold War left politics set in a Brooklyn rooming-house. His 1955 novel The Deer Park drew on his experiences working as a screenwriter in Hollywood in 1949-50. It was initially rejected by seven publishers due to its purportedly sexual content before being published by Putnam's. In the tradition of Dickens and Dostoevsky, Mailer wrote his fourth novel, An American Dream, as a serial in Esquire magazine over eight months (January to August 1964), publishing the first chapter only two months after he wrote it. In March 1965, Dial Press published a revised version. His editor was E. L. Doctorow. The novel, which contains perhaps Mailer's most evocative and lyrical prose, received mixed reviews, but was a best seller. Joan Didion praised it in a review in National Review (April 20, 1965) and John W. Aldridge did the same in Life (March 19, 1965), while Elizabeth Hardwick panned it in Partisan Review (spring 1965). Except for a brief period, the novel has never gone out of print and is admired greatly by Mailer partisans. In 1980, The Executioner's Song, Mailer's novelization of the life of murderer Gary Gilmore, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Mailer spent a longer time writing Ancient Evenings, his novel of Egypt in the XX dynasty (about 1100 B.C.E.) than any of his other books, working on it off and on from 1972 until 1983. It was also a bestseller, although reviews were generally negative. Harlot's Ghost, Mailer's longest novel (1310 pages), appeared in 1991. It is an exploration of the unspoken dramas of the CIA from the end of WWII to 1965. He performed a huge amount of research for the novel, which is still on CIA reading lists. He ended the novel with the words "To be continued," and planned to write a sequel, titled Harlot's Grave. But other projects intervened and he never wrote it. Harlot's Ghost sold well. His final novel, The Castle in the Forest, which focused on Hitler's childhood, reached number five on the Times best seller list after publication in January 2007, and received stronger reviews than any of his books since The Executioner's Song. Castle was intended to be the first volume of a trilogy, but Mailer died several months after it was completed. The Castle in the Forest was awarded a Bad Sex in Fiction Award by the Literary Review magazine. Mailer wrote over 40 books. He published 11 novels over a 59-year stretch.

Original Norman Mailer Autograph, signed on a 3 x 5 Index Card. Regular Price - $ 255.00 / Sale Price - $ 195.00.

Arthur Miller was born October 17, 1915 – died February 10, 2005. Miller was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre and cinema for almost 100 years, writing a wide variety of dramas, including celebrated plays such as The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, All My Sons, and Death of a Salesman, which are studied and performed worldwide. Miller was often in the public eye, most famously for refusing to give evidence against others to the House Un-American Activities Committee, being the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama among countless other awards, and for his marriage to Marilyn Monroe. Miller is considered by audiences and scholars as one of America's greatest playwrights and his plays are lauded throughout the world.

Original Arthur Miller Autograph, signed on a 3 x 5 inch Index Card. (Included with purchase is the shown 8 x 10 Black & White Photo of Arthur Miller and his beautiful wife Marilyn Monroe). Regular Price - $ 235.00 / Sale Price - $ 124.95.