The door to Wright's office stood half open to the October air, and the smell of fresh ink mixed with woodsmoke from the stove. I sat at the far table copying a deed when Finney came in late that ...

In May 1934, Harper’s rejected a manuscript for a short novella or short novel by a young Tucsonan, a proofreader at The Arizona Daily Star who was then just 28 years old. But in July 1935, the Viking ...