Ben Hecht Story & News, Compiled

Description:

This spiral bound book printed on card stock of variegated colors compiles monthly newsletters published in 2000-2001. It includes brief illustrated articles by Florice Whtye Kovan about Ben Hecht's life, work, new findings and preservation, and in each of the 11 compiled issues, a reprint of a 1920s Hecht Chicago Daily News story printed on narrower, apple green paper.

subjects: Ben Hecht biography,  short stories,  literary journalism,  Chicago writers,  modernism,  Midwestern Literary Renaissance,  Wisconsin writers

People: Ben Hecht,  Geroge Grosz,  Wallace Smith,  Sherwood Anderson,  Margaret Anderson,  Marilyn Monroe,  Jewish writers

Places: Chicago,  Hollywood,  New York City,  Wisconsin

Times: 20th Century