Helen Hoover

The Authors and Their BooksIt is sometimes quite a shock to meet an author. You may have been reading his books for years, and have come to form a distinct picture of the man behind the pen. If he writes nice, crisp stories about nice, crisp characters, you tend to think of him as beingwell, nice...

Somewhere on her desk there had to be a pencil.Marian Wall held two fingers in the margin of the black-bound manuscript while she searched through a litter of galley proofs, ashtrays, business cards, the remains of a liverwurst sandwich on rye toast, five envelopes containing bill payments she had...

Arthur Peabody Goodpasture, proper Bos-tonian, was so insignificant that people standing in front of him often failed to see him. A born Boy Scout and a man of peace, Arthur went to San Marco for the Peace Corps as a banana expert-and there, caught in the crossfire of plot and counterplot, he...