Garbaugust! Fifteen writers who turned up in the pulps..

You may know some of these as writers in the #pulps but some may just surprise you. Fifteen authors who went on to bigger things, big authors turning their hand at pulps, and one who you might not know was a writer at all.
The pulps may be seen as trash, but in this list there is a winner of a Pulitzer, an Oscar, and even the Nobel Prize for Literature
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[@CriminOllyBlog]

This was excellent!

[@GenreBooks23]

Thanks!

[@RaynorReadsStuff]

Loved this. So interesting and so many I wasn’t aware of. Brilliant 😊

[@GenreBooks23]

Thanks Debs- glad you liked it.

[@ObscureBookAdventures]

Whee hoo! lol. You did not disappoint.

[@GenreBooks23]

I was worried most people would know, but could not leave her out!

[@Littlebiglibrary]

Before He ever wrote and sold a Western story and later became the Best Selling Western Writer of all time, Louis L'Amour wrote stories for pulp magazines. His short story titled "The Admiral" appeared in a publication called "Story".

[@GenreBooks23]

Yes! He was on the long list. Naval adventure stuff I think..

[@JohnSeney]

William Faulkner published some arguably "pulpy" crime stories set in small-town Mississippi. They appeared in "respectable" places like the Saturday Evening Post. The editors cut them severely, but they are out in a book now with Faulkner's full-fledged verbosity restored.

[@GenreBooks23]

Ah: far too respectable! He did some screenwriting as well didn’t he?

[@JohnSeney]

@@GenreBooks23 Yes and that was probably the more disreputable thing 😸😆 he did not enjoy his stays in Hollywood

[@johnradovich8809]

This is the first video I’ve watched and thought I wish I lived next door to this guy.

[@GenreBooks23]

I'll take is as a compliment!

[@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk]

Great effort on the knowledge here Gavin. Good research.

[@GenreBooks23]

Thanks!

[@constancecampbell4610]

Theodore Dreiser? That was unexpected to be sure. 🎉

[@GenreBooks23]

Yeah, I always seem to think Dreiser was writing earlier than he actually was!

[@constancecampbell4610]

@@GenreBooks23 Have you read American Tragedy?

[@GenreBooks23]

@@constancecampbell4610 No- it's on my incredibly long TBR. Think I read "Sister Carrie" at university, but damned if I can remember much about it..

[@constancecampbell4610]

@@GenreBooks23 I have only read AT, but I really enjoyed it. The first and third (final) parts were my favorites. That last section moves like a runaway train, in a good way.

[@AaronReadABook]

Dune was the first book to win the Hugo & the Nebula together, because it was also the first ever Nebula winner! Alan Arkin! Did not expect that one. Anne of Green Gables is so good I would recommend it to anyone of any age, weird tales from her are unexpected though.

[@GenreBooks23]

Ah, Hugo and Nebula makes sense why I could not remember! I’ll take the Anne of Green Gables under advisement…

[@ObscureBookAdventures]

2 minutes in the video and I’m counting on you mentioning Agatha Christie

[@GenreBooks23]

Mais oui!

[@BookChatWithPat8668]

I don't know if I'm surprised by these or not. I think I may not really understand what constitutes "pulp." It seems like so many writers started out in the pulps. Maybe Annie Proulx was a surprise to me, but mostly because I didn't realize that she was old enough to have been writing for the pulps. Was it looked down upon for established writers to be writing in the pulps? Maybe Dreiser and Christie are a surprise to me. Tennessee Williams at 16 actually makes sense, I think.

[@GenreBooks23]

I think people would have looked down on a writer in a pulp purely because they paid so poorly. If you could get into Colliers, Cosmopolitan, Saturday Evening Post instead, it would show relative success. The Proulx was mid sixties from memory, so the pulps well into “digest” era..

[@BookChatWithPat8668]

@@GenreBooks23 got it. Thanks!