Spencer Curtis Brown

She dedicated it To Jon and the spirit of little Joss, who was born there, and used an epigraph translated from Chinese by Arthur Waley . It was in fact her sister Jon who...

This was one of RG 's great successes. Her agent Spencer Curtis Brown said of the central idea, [y]ou do go out of the way to make things difficult. A little boy complained that she...

RG found this negotiation among publishers traumatic. She had updated Shakespeare 's The Tempest in the spirit of the entertainments which Graham Greene used to intersperse among his serious novels. Spencer Curtis thought the story...

This book was a joint Book-of-the-Month Club choice in the USA, and earned RG about $20,000. Spencer Curtis concluded he had been wrong to condemn it; but she feared he might have been right.

RG 's peppery agent, Spencer Curtis Brown , found it hard to take her second marriage and eventually had a fist-fight with James Haynes-Dixon outside the Ritz Grill in London. After this they did...

NL began using the pseudonym Peter Curtis once she started writing crime novels, as she did not want to lose readers who preferred her historical fiction. She formed her masculine pseudonym by combining the name...

MR 's London agent, Spencer Curtis Brown , transferred her for this book to a younger colleague, Juliet O'Hea . O'Hea proved to be very sensitive and sympathetic to MR , and eventually became her...

In her capacity as European representative for the American Everybody's Magazine (edited by John O'Hara Cosgrave ), CS set out to woo various authors including Kenneth Grahame . She writes that she was successful in...

It ran for sixty-three performances, and was published by Samuel French in 1913. In March 1913 it ran at the Empire Theatre in New York under the title Jinny.GS wrote to her...