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Cargando... Walter B. Gibson and the Shadowpor Thomas J. Shimeld
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Great biography of the prolific author Walter Gibson, creator of The Shadow and numerous books on magic and psychic development. Gibson poured out numerous entertainment columns on things like Tabletop Magic, as well as crosswords, while working for a news syndicate. His gig with The Shadow involved turning out two books a month for 283 novels and after that he continued turning out books until his death in his 80s. He ghosted books with Houdini and Thurston and was himself a magician. This book tells his impressive story and it is one worth reading for pulp fans and inspiration for would-be writers. Gibson is my hero. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? . . . The Shadow knows!" And who knew The Shadow better than his creator, Walter B. Gibson. Relatively few people have heard of Gibson, but many more are familiar with The Shadow having heard the program on the Blue Coal Radio Program in the 1930s and read the Street & Smith Shadow novels. Walter B. Gibson's life and career come out from behind The Shadow in this biography. It covers his youth in Philadelphia, his development as a writer and magician, his wives, including the third, (Litzka, who was a harpist and magician in her own right), his time living in Maine and upstate New York, and his later years and death. In addition to being credited with creating The Shadow (he used the pseudonym Maxwell Grant), Gibson wrote 187 books, contributed 668 articles to periodicals, created 283 stories for The Shadow Magazine, wrote 48 separate syndicated feature columns, reported the adventures of The Shadow and Blackstone the magician in 394 comic books and newspaper strips, and helped develop 147 radio scripts and many other works under numerous pseudonyms. Gibson has invented many widely used magic tricks and traveled with and befriended Harry Houdini, Howard Thurston, Harry Blackstone, Sr., and Joseph Dunninger. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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