SOL STEIN - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 07/14/2002 - HFSID 291988

SOL STEIN
Typed letter with handwritten postscript to Barnaby Conrad, concerning Stein's entry in a collection of essays on the writing craft
Typed Letter signed: "as ever/Sol", a page, 8½x11. Tarrytown, New York, 2002 July 14. On personal letterhead to Barnaby Conrad. In full: "I tried unsuccessfully to shrink the pages so they would fit into the little return envelope. According to law I have to protect the WritePror trademark by asking you to please note that WritePro is one word and it is followed by r, which shows that it is a registered trademark. Question: Any chance that in the brief bio on top you could add 'Stein on Writing' and 'How to Grow a Novel', or is that too competitive? If space is short you could cut the first phrase and/or Broadway plays and certainly 'nonfiction books'. Yr obdt svt". His handwritten postscript: "Pls fill in the title of your book!". Sol Stein (b. 1926) was chief script writer for the Voice of America in the early 1950s. As Executive Director of the American Committee for Cultural Freedom, he was an outspoken critic of Senator Joe McCarthy. He was an editor at Beacon Press, and then editor and publisher of his own firm, Stein and Day. Stein has written 9 novels, 3 plays, and 3 nonfiction works. When a Wisconsin school board launched a national campaign against his novel The Magician in 1981, Stein mailed copies to all 3,000 residents of the town. Barnaby Conrad, himself a prolific author, founded the Santa Barbara Writers Conference in 1973 and published books about the craft of writing. This correspondence almost certainly concerned the introduction to a chapter by Stein in Snoopy's Guide to the Writing Life, edited by Conrad. Creased. Ink note (unknown hand) at lower right margin. Otherwise, fine condition.