Re: RARA-AVIS: Hardboiled writers: do they make a living?

James Rogers (jetan@ionet.net)
Sun, 26 Oct 1997 12:59:31 -0600 (CST) At 10:48 AM 10/26/97 -0800, you wrote:
>"Joseph M. Johnston" <johnston@netreach.net> wrote:
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>Hammett may've been very successful in terms of his popularity among
>Mask readers, but it didn't pay an awful lot. He was, I suppose, the
>biggest fish in a very small pool, and the money didn't start coming in
>until the novel sales took off, and then Hollywood got interested.
>

At that, he did far better than the less prolific Chandler who was
just stony broke until he came up with THE BIG SLEEP and who didn't see
serious money until even later than that.

James
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