In this biography, Marilyn Cannaday recreates the life and times of Lester Dent, a little-known giant of the pulp magazine era of U.S. popular literature. From 1929 to 1959, Dent wrote and sold millions of words of fictionawildly colorful action stories with sea, air and western settings, adventure and suspense novels. His most famous serial character was supehero Doc Savage, the Man of Bronze, who battled crime throughout the pages of a ten-cent pulp magazine in the thirties and forties.Many years later, Norma told the following story: One day Les and I went out to see Mr. and Mrs. Dent and there in the ... Another time Les was trying to repair a radio when his mother went through the room and glanced at the tangled maze of wire looped around the back of the radio. ... whatever happened to him in high school was so painful that he refused to attend class reunions or the annual alumnianbsp;...
Title | : | Bigger Than Life |
Author | : | Marilyn Cannaday |
Publisher | : | Popular Press - 1990 |
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