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| - | "The [[mass market]] for [[reading]] in this country always was the [[pulp]] market; millions and millions of periodicals. That has become the paperback market. The service performed has been and is to get people reading. You don’t achieve this by putting [[Shakespeare]] out in ten million copies. Your job, if you’re in the industry, and it’s your business and let’s face it, your source of money, is to get the people to read. You study the reading habits of people and you try to meet them—through [[detective]], [[adventure]], [[sex]] and [[Western]] stories. Once you have your people reading—even if it’s a lowly Western, they are being [[educated]]. Once you get them reading, they improve. Of course, there are some people who don’t improve; some of them never reach above their level. What they read, however, is not a matter for [[lawsuit|litigation]] but for the mind, and the mind is the individual." --[http://efanzines.com/EK/eI22/index.htm], interviewed in 1966 by Lawrence Dietz, "Notes on the Smut Renaissance," ''New York World Journal Tribune'' (October 16, 1966). | ||
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| - | '''William Lawrence Hamling''' (June 14, 1921 – June 29, 2017) was a Chicago-based [[American publisher]] of "[[pulp]]" active from the 1950s to the 1970s and best-known for heading [[Greenleaf Publishing]] and his involvement in the [[Redrup v. New York|Redrup v. New York case]]. | ||
| - | Under the Regency imprint Hamling published novels and anthologies by writers such as [[B. Traven]], [[Kurt Vonnegut]], [[Robert Bloch]], [[Philip José Farmer]], and [[Clarence Cooper, Jr.]] In 1959, along with [[Robert Silverberg]], [[Harlan Ellison]] wrote pornography for Hamling's [[Nightstand Books]]. His best known work was ''Sex Gang'' (Nightstand Book, NB1503, November 1959), as by Paul Merchant. ''Sex Gang'' would become the only porn novel he would write for publisher Hamling. | + | '''Lawrence Block''' (born June 24, 1938) is an American [[crime fiction|crime]] writer best known for two long-running [[New York city|New York]]–set series about the recovering alcoholic [[Private Investigator|P.I.]] [[Matthew Scudder]] and the [[gentleman thief|gentleman burglar]] [[Bernie Rhodenbarr]]. Block was named a Grand Master by the [[Mystery Writers of America]] in 1994. |
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| - | In 1970, [[Earl Kemp]] published an illustrated edition of the ''[[President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography ]]'' through [[William Hamling (publisher)|William Hamling]]'s Greenleaf Classics. | + | |
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| - | == Career == | + | |
| - | Bill Hamling began as an science fiction author. He and his wife Frances Deegan Yerxa both had stories in the same issue of the pulp ''[[Fantastic Adventures]]'' (October 1944). His ''Shadow of the Sphinx'' is a horror novel about an ancient Egyptian sorceress. First published during the 1940s in ''Fantastic Adventures'', it was described by [[Lin Carter]] as "the best story of its kind I read in many a moon. The character of Zaleikka was done to perfection. This is the type of yarn we have all too few of nowadays." | + | |
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| - | After work as an editor at Ziff-Davis, Hamling started his company, [[Greenleaf Publishing]], in the early 1950s with [[Imagination (magazine)|Imagination]]. His wife worked closely with him in the early years of his publishing company. In the late 1950s, he began [[Rogue (magazine)|Rogue]], and in 1959, he launched [[Nightstand Books]]. | + | |
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| - | *[[Robert Bonfils (American illustrator)]] | + | |
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Lawrence Block (born June 24, 1938) is an American crime writer best known for two long-running New York–set series about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and the gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr. Block was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1994.
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