The book is filled with wonderful, self-deprecating humor (as is expected from any person of Jewish origin), wit and charm. The author writes about his errors in judgement, the regrets he has for the few times (that he wrote about) acting like a “star”, he writes about the business he loves with a wink, but sadness of someone who has been through the wringer.
Joseph Pulitzer (10 April, 1847 – 29 October, 1911) was a newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World, as well as a Congressman.
Howard Lindsay (29 March, 1889 – 11 February, 1968) was an American Pulitzer Prize award winner playwright, director and actor.
Zane Grey (31 January, 1872 – 23 October, 1939) was an American author mostly associated with adventures and stories taking place in the Wild West.
Louis Bromfield (27 December, 1896 – 18 March, 1956) was an American author, scientist, and conservationist who won the Pulitzer Prize
William Braithwaite (6 December 1878 – 8 June, 1962) was a poet, writer and critic from Boston, MA.
Daniel Keyes was an American author best known for his novel Flowers for Algernon, a 1958 short story that won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960.
Bel Kaufman (10 May, 1911 – 25 July, 2014), born as Bella, in Berlin, Germany, was an American author and educator known for her novel Up the Down Staircase.
A novel taking place in present day New York City involving a search for a missing manuscript by Edgar Allan Poe in a hidden world of magic & magical creatures
A Jewish cobbler named Pincus Potasznick leaves his kids and pregnant wife to try and make it in America. The year is 1910 antisemitism is prominent in Europe