A short history of the Saturday Evening Post by the Curtis Publishing Company

Frederick S. Bigelow wrote this history of the Saturday Evening Post, covering the years 1897 to 1927. It was expanded in 1937, and covers the rise of the magazine from a circulation of 1600 copies in 1897 to about three million in 1937, under the editorship of George Horace Lorimer. It mentions briefly the major authors and their series characters including, but not limited to, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, O’ Henry, Jack London, Ring Lardner, James Branch Cabell, Norman Reilly Raine, William Hazlett Upson, Leonard Nason and Guy Gilpatric. Download after the jump.

Bill Adams poem - Old temple of the deep - a sailor's prayer

[Here is a poem of Bill Adams from the pages of Short Stories dated September 25, 1928. It’s a sailor’s prayer that I thought you’d enjoy. After the jump.]

The signal - short story by Bill Adams

From Bill Adams, a story of the brotherhood of the sea. It originally appeared in the Feb 24, 1934 issue of the Argosy. Link after the jump.

Bill Adams - sailor, short story writer, poet

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[Bertram Martin (“Bill”) Adams is another forgotten writer who wrote for Adventure. He was a sailor on the clippers (wind powered ships), and retired from the sea when his body could not take the strain of further voyaging. Contemporary critics raved over his work, comparing him to Joseph Conrad, and he was a favorite of readers. He won literary awards for his clean and spare tales of the seas. Today his name is almost unknown. More after the jump.]

W.C. Tuttle and the Nobel prize for literature - what's the connection?

Answer to the question I asked earlier: W.C. Tuttle and the Nobel prize for literature - what's the connection?

In the Nobel Prize winning author V.S. Naipaul’s book, A House for Mr. Biswas, the protagonist’s brother in law, and one of the main characters, is a reader of W.C. Tuttle. Throughout the book, he is referred to as WC Tuttle, his wife as Mrs. Tuttle, and their children as the Tuttles.

Hope you liked that.