Monday, February 15, 2016

John D. MacDonald: Businessman Author

The Trap of Solid Gold: Businessman Author

3 comments:

Don Coffin said...

Could that $100,000 per year figure (in 1953: "MacDonald, who is 38 and makes about $100,000 a year writing magazine stories, soft-cover novels, mysteries and science fiction.") in earnings possibly be right? That's be the equivalent of about $1 million today.

Unknown said...

Not entirely unlikely. Gold Medal paid very well, and he sold to the slicks as well as the remaining pulps at that time.

Charles Gramlich said...

Gotta check this out. A favorite author of mine.