Arthur gordon author biography
Arthur Gordon () was an author and a magazine journalist who wrote for Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Reader's Digest, Ladies Home Journal, and Guideposts....
Arthur Gordon Papers
The Arthur Gordon Papers contain manuscripts of short stories written by Gordon, correspondence related to those stories, one nonfiction magazine article manuscript, and several journal entries on the art of writing.
The first folder of Subseries A contains materials related to the provenance of the collection, and was not originally bound with the rest of the collection. All other materials were originally bound in three volumes by Gordon.
The short story manuscripts, along with correspondence between Gordon and his agent (Edith Sewell) on the sale of the manuscripts to magazines, comprise the bulk of the collection.
Gordon wrote explicitly for the popular market, dabbling in genres such as romance and mystery in simple, accessible prose.
Arthur Gordon was born in in Savannah, Georgia, USA. He was a writer, known for One Man's Way (), General Electric Theater () and Suspense ().
Nearly all of the stories deal with life aboard ship. Exceptions to this rule include "Dude Jungle," set in the Amazon jungle; and "Sister Act" and "All the Angles," set in New York City show business. The latter two stories