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lludwig · ‎11-02-2006

SATNROSE’S BOOK QUIZ

2. What is the most valuable printed book?

Answer in invisible ink: 2. Was The Gutenberg Bible; now it is the Caxton Canterbury Tales

Note: I think a complete Gutenberg would beat the Canterbury if offered up to auction. However, the Caxton Canterbury is currently the most expensive printed book ever to change hands. 13 million? I forget.....

oldbookshopnj · ‎03-18-2015

Jungle Book was my question mark, but I am still looking for the 1897 bestseller from a Nobel prize winner.

jeanpaulbooks · ‎03-18-2015

Henryk Sienkiewicz's Quo Vadis?

oldbookshopnj · ‎03-19-2015

Quo Vadis was my answer unless someone can find that Jungle Book was a bestseller.

oldbookshopnj · ‎03-19-2015

762. This American author never published a book under his birth name--he legally changed his name before his first book appeared. He used his legal name for more "literary" works, but he is most famous for a series of over 50 crime novels published under a pseudonym.

Who is he?

oldbookshopnj · ‎03-21-2015

Hint: His first book, published under his legal name in 1952, was juvenile science fiction.

emmbook · ‎03-21-2015

762. Evan Hunter. Born Salvatore Lombino and published under multiple pseudonyms, most notably as Ed McBain.

lludwig · ‎03-21-2015

762. Evan Hunter

Evan Hunter/Ed McBain (October 15, 1926 – July 6, 2005) was an American author and screenwriter. Born Salvatore Albert Lombino, he legally adopted the name Evan Hunter in 1952. While successful and well known as Evan Hunter, he was even better known as Ed McBain, a name he used for most of his crime fiction, beginning in 1956.

First Book - Find The Feathered Serpent (1952) Juvenile Children's Science Fiction.

As Evan Hunter, he gained notice with his 1954 novel Blackboard Jungle. While looking to start a career as a writer, Lombino took a variety of jobs, including 17 days as a teacher at Bronx Vocational High School in September 1950. This experience would later form the basis for his 1954 novel Blackboard Jungle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_McBain

What a movie Blackboard Jungle (1955) was! I have a "vintage" PB of Blackboard Jungle around here somewhere. For some reason DH wanted to keep it to sell. hmmm I should check it out! LOL

oldbookshopnj · ‎03-21-2015

762. Congratulations to emmbook & lludwig.

Hunter is also believed by many to have written a substantial amount of pornography under the name "Dean Hudson." It is not confirmed or proveable, but apparently the agency Scott Meredith took payment in bags of cash.

lludwig · ‎03-21-2015

763. Who was the first African American to have a novel bought by Hollywood?

jeanpaulbooks · ‎03-21-2015

763. Frank Yerby: The Foxes of Harrow

lludwig · ‎03-21-2015

jeanpaulbooks - Congratulations! You are correct. That is two in a row for you on questions that I have asked. I'm beginning to think your found my source of questions.

763. Frank Yerby became a best-selling author with his very first book, The Foxes of Harrow (Dial Press 1946), a historical melodrama set in the South before the Civil War it sold over one million copies. He is known as the as the first African-American writer to become a millionaire from his pen. The Foxes of Harrow was made into a 1947 film starring Rex Harrison and Maureen O'Hara. (ironic that Harrison, a Brit, played an Irishman while O'Hara fiercely Irish played a Creole woman. )

Frank Yerby

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Yerby

Frank Yerby & The Foxes of Harrow - Interesting about the publishers etc.

http://tinyurl.com/mvzq2h2

"The Foxes of Harrow" - The Film - Interesting reading what he required of the studio before selling the rights and interesting what changes they made to the book . . .

http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/637940%7C0/The-Foxes-of-Harrow.html