Re: RARA-AVIS: Woolrich and Story Magazine

From: Richard Moore ( moorich@aol.com)
Date: 05 Oct 2007


--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, William Ahearn
<williamahearn@...> wrote:
>
>
> --- Richard Moore <moorich@...> wrote:
>
> > I don't have the Nevins bio/bibliography of Woolrich
> > handy (one day
> > I will find it while searching my stacks for
> > something else)but I am
> > reasonably certain that the story "Goodbye New York"
> > came after he
> > returned to writing with sales to the detective
> > pulps.
> >
> I do. And I'll get to reading it after I clear my head
> of a lot of other junk. "Goodbye New York" was
> published in 1937. Does that help? If not, let me know
> what you need and I'll look it up.
>
> William
>
> Essays and Ramblings
> <http://www.williamahearn.com>
  Thanks. That was about what I expected. Woolrich began to appear in the Detective pulps in 1934 and by 1937 was well-established there. These were not magazines Martha Foley was likely reading back then and Woolrich may well have skipped over those as he told Foley of his writing career.

Richard Moore
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