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Book SynopsisBiography of Robert Carlton “Bob” Brown, avant-garde publisher, poet and reading machine inventor, bestselling pulp fiction and Hollywood movie treatment writer, cookbook author with Cora and Rose Brown, advertiser copyrighter, editorial board member of the Masses, curator of A Museum of Social Change, and much more.
Trade Review"Outstanding. In many ways, this is much more than a biography of one Bob Brown; it is a biography of a lost twentieth century." -- -Craig Dworkin The University of Utah "A cross between an intellectual biography of this literary dynamo and a picaresque novel. Bob Brown has found a sensitive, insightful, and appreciative biographer who not only knows how to narrate (and condense) his amazing adventures but also how to draw the connections that make this overflowing life of letters seem all the more meaningful and significant in our era of digital multimedia." -- -Louis Kaplan University of Toronto "Bob Brown, a mostly forgotten figure of the first half of the twentieth century, was nonetheless an original, one of the most colorful and versatile individuals of his time. Publisher, inventor, poet, cookbook writer, pulp fiction writer, self-proclaimed 'fiction machine,' revolutionary, world traveler, Greenwich Village bohemian, European expatriate -- you name it and Brown lunged at it with both hands. Though today largely a footnote to other people's stories, Brown has finally gotten a book of his own, a meticulously researched work that traces the rollicking life and times of a larger-than-life individual while also offering a whirlwind tour through every important cultural and political movement of his era." -- -Constance Rosenblum author of Gold Digger: The Outrageous Life and Times of Peggy Hopkins Joyce
Table of ContentsPreface 1. When the Artist Became a Fiction Factory, 1907-1917 2. A in a Pulp Non-Fiction Adventure Story: Once Upon a Time, 1886-1907 3. Free Love, Free Verse, and Free Radicals in the Avant-Garde, 1913-1917 4. Exile, Escape, Empire, and World Travels, 1917-1928 5. Expatriate Avant-Garde in the South of France, 1928-1932 6. Let There Be Beer, Wine, Snacks, and Radical Social Change, 1932-1940 7. Saudade and Going Home Again: The Amazon, Hollywood, Brazil, and Manhattan, 1941-1959 Notes Index
