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The Creator of Doc Savage Marilyn Cannaday Popular Press In this biography, Marilyn Cannaday recreates the life and times of Lester Dent, a little-known giant of the pulp magazine era. From 1929 to 1959, Dent wrote and sold millions of words of fiction–wildly colorful action stories with sea, air, and western settings. His most famous serial character was superhero Doc Savage, who battled crime throughout the pages of a ten-cent pulp magazine in the thirties and forties. This book builds on knowledge of Dent's literary output and his unpublished personal papers, enriched by Cannaday's own acquaintance with Dent's wife. For more information contact our publicity manager, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu

LC: 89-085739 PS 210 pp. 6 x 9 9 b/w photos, 2 b/w illus. ISBN 0-87972-471-4 Cloth $17.95 t (ISBN 0-87972-472-2 Paper is out of print) To order, you can accumulate titles in the Shopping Cart by clicking on the bulleted lines below. You can submit your order electronically, paying for it with MasterCard or Visa. Click here for further explanation of shopping cart feature. Never ordered from us before? Read this first.

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