Description
Delia Owens:
She Never Thought She Could Write a Novel
Was she ever wrong! Where the Crawdads Sing is a publishing phenomenon that over the past two years has enchanted millions of readers worldwide.
Delia Owens: A Checklist
Despite a first printing of a reported 28,000 copies, first editions of her novel are scarce in the marketplace. And then there are the three books co-written with her then-husband, Mark Owens, about their experiences in Africa.
Biography of a Book, Part 2
Firsts’ Contributing Editor Peter Coveney completes his two-part article discussing “the backstory of how a particular book or classic came to be written and published and its cultural afterlife—a sort of biography of a book.” And what books they are! Ulysses is only one of them.
Books into Film
The Keys of the Kingdom, a novel written by Dr. A. J. Cronin and a film version with a screenplay written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Nunnally Johnson and directed by John M. Stahl.
Editor’s Letter
Catalogue Reports
Antiquarian Notes
“Write it ALL down”