How to Become a Complete Nonentity: a memoir

by Richard Wormser

This tale of Dick Wormser's career reveals the trials and wonders of the world of pulp fiction in the thirties, as well as the travails and triumphs of Hollywood writers in the forties and fifties. He wrote short stories for The Shadow and other action magazines, and was named by Street & Smith to revive Nick Carter, for which he wrote a 60,000-word novel every two weeks until they had enough backlog to make it a semi-monthly. Hired...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595384676
• ISBN13: 9780595384679
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"