Product Description

Harry Leon Wilson (1867-1929 or 28) was the American writer who wrote The Spenders (1902), The Boss of Little Arcady (1905), Bunker Bean (1913), Somewhere in Red Gap (1916), Ma Pettengill (1919), The Wrong Twin (1921) and Merton of the Movies (1922). "At the very beginning of the tale there comes a moment of puzzled hesitation. One way of approach is set beside another for choice, and a third contrived for better choice. Still the puzzle persists, all because the one precisely right way might seem-shall we say intense, high keyed, clamorous? Yet if one way is the only right way, why pause? Courage! Slightly dazed, though certain, let us be on, into the shrill thick of it. So, then-"

Product Details

• Published on: 2007-09-06
• Released on: 2007-09-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 334 pages

Review
"(Merton of the Movies) is the work of a craftsman in loving control of his material and its form." -- Lawrence Clark Powell, in California Classics: The Creative Literature of the Golden State

About the Author
Harry Leon Wilson was a prolific playwright and screenwriter. Wilson’s best-known work, Ruggles of Red Gap, was made and remade as a movie four times from 1918 to 1950, the last version starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball.