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Bigger Than Life The Creator of Doc Savage Marilyn Cannaday Popular Press In this biography, Marilyn Cannaday recreates the life and times of Lester Dent, a little-known giant of the pulp magazine era. From 1929 to 1959, Dent wrote and sold millions of words of fiction–wildly colorful action stories with sea, air, and western settings. His most famous serial character was superhero Doc Savage, who battled crime throughout the pages of a ten-cent pulp magazine in the thirties and forties. This book builds on knowledge of Dent's literary output and his unpublished personal papers, enriched by Cannaday's own acquaintance with Dent's wife. For more information regarding publicity and reviews contact our publicity manager, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu

LC: 89-085739 PS 210 pp. 6 x 9 9 b/w photos, 2 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-87972-471-9 Cloth $17.95 t (ISBN: 978-0-87972-472-6 Paper is out of print) Add titles to your shopping cart by clicking on the "Add this book to cart" link above. You can submit your order electronically, paying for it with your credit card. Click here for a further explanation of the shopping cart feature Never ordered from us before? Read this first.

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