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A-Z Guide to Writing Success and Publishin

A-Z Guide to Writing Success and Publishin( )
Author: Stein, Sol
ISBN:978-0-312-55095-0
Publication Date:Nov 2010
Publisher:St. Martin's Press
Imprint:Saint Martin's Griffin
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $19.99
Book Description:

Street smarts from a publishing insider: this book offers a wealth of tips, tricks and savvy advice to writers from college students to experienced authors and includes useful information about the publishing process.Bestselling novelist, playwright, editor, publisher and teacher Sol Stein knows what writers face when they sit down before a blank page. This invaluable guide provides quick and handy A-Z reference help to solve common problems: writer's block, writing a difficult scene,...
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Book Details
Pages:288
Detailed Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Writing / Business Aspects
Language Arts & Disciplines / Publishers & Publishing Industry
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.006 x 9.126 x 0.663 Inches
Book Weight:0.737 Pounds
Author Biography
Stein, Sol (Author)


Sol Stein is a Chicago-born transplant to the Bronx. In the 1950's he was an anti-Communist scriptwriter for the Voice of America, Washington¿s Cold War propaganda radio network, and a leading defender of civil liberties. But he made his lasting mark in publishing. In 1962 he and his wife at the time, Patricia Day, founded the publishing house Stein and Day, which had immediate success that year with the director Elia Kazan¿s debut book, America, America. The story of a Greek youth who comes to the United States, the book sold three million copies, and Mr. Kazan turned it into a movie, released the next year. Mr. Stein was Stein and Day¿s editor in chief.

In one of the many books Mr. Stein himself wrote, Bankruptcy: A Feast for Lawyers (1989), he exposed the bureaucratic nightmare that had accompanied the financial implosion of Stein and Day after 27 years in business.

Solomon Stein was born in Chicago on Oct. 13, 1926, to Louis and Zelda (Zam) Stein, Jewish immigrants who fled Russia. His mother became a translator for the United Nations. His father was a jewelry designer. The family moved to the North Bronx in 1930. Mr. Stein went on to enroll at City College, but his studies there were interrupted when he enlisted in the Army Air Forces in 1944. He voluntarily transferred to the infantry and served in Germany during the post-World War II occupation. After returning from military service, he completed his bachelor of social science degree and earned a master¿s in English and comparative literature at Columbia.

Besides working as an anti-Communist scriptwriter for the Voice of America, Mr. Stein was a member of its ideological advisory staff starting in the early 1950s. The journalist Robert Scheer, who was editor of the left-leaning Ramparts magazine in the late 1960s, branded him The Archdeacon of the Cold War.

Sol Sttein passed away on September 26, 2019 at the age of 92.

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