The Amazing Adventures of Bob Brown: A Real-Life Zelig Who Wrote His Way Through the 20th Century

Craig Saper

Published by Fordham University Press 2016

The Amazing Adventures of Bob Brown

A Real-Life Zelig Who Wrote His Way Through the 20th Century

Craig Saper

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823271481

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Craig Saper is Professor in the Language, Literacy, and Culture Doctoral Program at UMBC.

Reviews

Finally, a biography of Bob Brown, the avant-garde writer, publisher, and “godfather of the e-reader” (The New York Times)

Bob Brown, a mostly forgotten figure of the first half of the twentieth century, was nonetheless an original, one of the most colorful and versatile individuals of his time. Publisher, inventor, poet, cookbook writer, pulp fiction writer, self-proclaimed 'fiction machine,' revolutionary, world traveler, Greenwich Village bohemian, European expatriate –- you name it and Brown lunged at it with both hands. Though today largely a footnote to other people’s stories, Brown has finally gotten a book of his own, a meticulously researched work that traces the rollicking life and times of a larger-than-life individual while also offering a whirlwind tour through every important cultural and political movement of his era.---—Constance Rosenblum, author of Gold Digger: The Outrageous Life and Times of Peggy Hopkins Joyce

“A cross between an intellectual biography of this literary dynamo and a picaresque novel. Bob Brown has found a sensitive, insightful, and appreciative biographer who not only knows how to narrate (and condense) his amazing adventures but also how to draw the connections that make this overflowing life of letters seem all the more meaningful and significant in our era of digital multimedia.”---—Louis Kaplan, University of Toronto

“Outstanding. In many ways, this is much more than a biography of one Bob Brown; it is a biography of a lost twentieth century.”---—Craig Dworkin, The University of Utah

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 When the Artist Became a Fiction Factory, 1907– 17 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
2 A Pulp Nonfiction Adventure Story: Once Upon a Time, 1886– 1907 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
3 Free Love, Free Verse, and Free Radicals in the Avant-Garde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
4 Exile, Escape, Empire, and World Travels, 1917– 28 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
5 Expatriate Avant-Garde in the South of France, 1928– 32 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
6 Let There Be Beer, Wine, Snacks, and Radical Social Change, 1932– 40 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
7 Saudade and Going Home Again: The Amazon, Hollywood, Brazil, and Manhattan, 1941– 59 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Acknowledgments: The Making of a Biography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295

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Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Pages
- Main content: 320
Keywords: Bob Brown; Robert Carlton Brown; pulp fiction; avant-garde; surrealism; The Browns; cookbooks; Commonwealth College; beer; snacks; slackers; Grantwood Village; expatriate modernists; imagists

eBook

Published: May 12, 2016
ISBN: 9780823271481