Improbable Fiction by Jan Cohn

Improbable Fiction by Jan Cohn

A compelling account of the life of Pennsylvanian writer Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958). Through the examination of the tension between her seemingly contradictory domestic and professional identities, Jan Cohn illuminates precisely why Rinehart's accomplishments are so remarkable.

She [Cohn] is particularly sensitive to recurrent motifs and issues in the large corpus of Rinehart's work, and that sensitivity, together with the chronological bibliography appended to the study, will be welcomed by avid readers of mystery or suspense fiction as well as by specialists in popular literature and cultureOn the whole, this biography is well done: it is at once scholarly and popular, and it is therefore suited for large academic libararies and public libraries with good collections of Rinehart's work.

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This is the impeccably researched story of a prolific writer. Jan Cohn . . . utilizes archival sources, materials from Rinehart's friends and family, and in-depth interviews with Rinehart's two sons (the founders of Farrar & Rinehart Publishing in New York City) in this lucid biography.

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This detailed, well-annotated account of Rinehart's public and private lives will complement a library's collection.

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Jan Cohn was G. Keith Funston Professor of American Literature and American Studies at Trinity College and the author of four other books, including Creating America (1989).

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ISBN 13	9780822959120
ISBN 10	0822959127
Title	Improbable Fiction
Author	Jan Cohn
Series	Regional
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Pittsburgh Press
Year published	2006-07-15
Number of pages	308
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