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Author Saper, Craig J., author

Title The amazing adventures of Bob Brown : a real-life zelig who wrote his way through the 20th century / Craig Saper
Edition First edition
Published New York : Empire State Editions, 2016

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Contents Preface -- When the artist became a fiction factory, 1907-1917 -- A pulp non-fiction adventure story: once upon a time, 1886-1907 -- Free love, free verse, and free radicals in the avant-garde, 1913-1917 -- Exile, escape, empire, and world travels, 1917-1928 -- Expatriate avant-garde in the South of France, 1928-1932 -- Let there be beer, wine, snacks, and radical social change, 1932-1940 -- Saudade and going home again: the Amazon, Hollywood, Brazil, and Manhattan, 1941-1959
Summary Biography of Robert Carlton ""Bob"" Brown, avant-garde publisher, poet and reading machine inventor, bestselling pulp fiction and Hollywood movie treatment writer, cookbook author with Cora and Rose Brown, advertiser copyrighter, editorial board member of the Masses, curator of A Museum of Social Change, and much more
Analysis Bob Brown
Commonwealth College
Grantwood Village
Robert Carlton Brown
The Browns
avant-garde
beer
cookbooks
expatriate modernists
imagists
pulp fiction
slackers
snacks
surrealism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Brown, Bob, 1886-1959.
SUBJECT Brown, Bob, 1886-1959
Brown, Bob, 1886-1959 fast
Subject Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
Authors, American
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016010779
ISBN 9780823271474
0823271471
9780823271498
0823271498
9780823271481
082327148X
9780823271467
0823271463