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The American world of 1918 was certainly ready for farce. America had just been through its First World War; more deadly, it would lose many thousands to the Great Flu Pandemic 1919. And so it welcomed Biltmore Oswald: The Diary of a Hapless Recruit and Out o' Luck: Biltmore Oswald Very Much at Sea, its sequel, published by Fredrick Stokes and Company. While editor, Smith also published his poetry which, like Edgar Allan Poe, he considered his true calling.
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James Thorne Smith, Jr. (1892 - 1934) was an American writer of humorus supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith. He is best known today for the two Topper novels, comic fantasy fiction involving sex, much drinking and supernatural transformations. With racy illustrations, these sold millions of copies in the 1930s and were equally popular in paperbacks of the 1950s. Smith drank as steadily as his characters; his appearance in James Thurber's The Years with Ross involves an unexplained week-long disappearance. Smith was born in Annapolis, Maryland, the son of a Navy commodore and attended Dartmouth College. Following hungry years in Greenwich Village, working part-time as an advertising agent, Smith achieved meteoric success with the publication of Topper in 1926. He was an early resident of Free Acres, a social experimental community developed by Bolton Hall according to the economic principles of Henry George in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. He died of a heart attack in 1934 while vacationing in Florida.
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- PublisherAlan Rodgers Books
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 159818850X
- ISBN 13 9781598188509
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages108
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