Hello All,
In case anyone is interested, two of the books mentioned by
Mark are available for download at www.archive.org:
The Whole Family: A Novel by Twelve Authors:
http://www.archive.org/details/wholefamilynovel00howeuoft
The Affair at the Inn:
http://www.archive.org/details/affairatinn00wigguoft
Best, Harry
Quoting "Mark R. Harris" <
brokerharris@gmail.com>:
> A famous example of this approach is The Whole
Family: A Novel by Twelve
> Authors (including William Dean Howells and Henry
James) (1908):
>
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whole_Family:_a_Novel_by_Twelve_Authors
>
> Another such novel of that era, The Sturdy Oak
(1917), was edited by
> Elizabeth Jordan and includes a chapter by Mary
Heaton Vorse -- both
> contributors to The Whole Family:
>
> http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8435
>
> The Affair at the Inn (1904) was by four
authors:
>
>
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C02E0D81F3AE733A25754C1A96F9C946597D6CF
>
> Here is an interesting web-page about literary
collaborations:
>
> http://www.admit2.net/collaborative_archive.htm
>
> Mark
>
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Nathan Cain <
IndieCrime@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Browsing my neighborhood used bookstore today I
came across a book
>> called The Black Moon, which is a collaboration
between Loren
>> Estleman, Ed Gorman, W.R. Philbrick, Robert
Randisi and L.J. Washburn
>> (This is the pseudonym James Reasoner and his
wife use writing
>> together, isn't it?). It appears each author
wrote a section of the
>> book. It looks like an interesting idea. Has
anyone else read it? The
>> cover promises "A Spectacular New Direction in
Mystery." Was this a
>> one off, or were there more books of this
sort?
>>
>>
>
>
>
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