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IN THIS DRAMATIC SERIES OF LETTERS (between an American living in San Francisco and his former business partner who returned to Germany) American writing has been enriched by one of those rarities in the field of literature, a perfect short story. Further, it is one of those inevitable stories, so significantly conceived and so naturally expressed that both the average reader and the professional author are likely to experience a kindred shocked reaction: “Why, I could have written that. Why didn’t I think of that before!” In every work of genius, says Goethe reflectively, we recognize our own rejected thoughts.

Kressmann Taylor, the author, is a woman. She is a wife, and the mother of three children. Between 1926 and 1928 she was an advertising copy writer. Since then, except for times when she has had occasional satirical verses in periodicals, she has considered herself a “housewife” and not a writer.

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