Shadow of My Brother

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Author: Grubb, Davis Alexander (1919-1980) inscribed Year: 1966 Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston Place: New York, Chicago and San Francisco Description: 317 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 6") bound in original publisher's green cloth with white and shadow black to cover and spine in original pictorial jacket. Inscribed by the author. First Edition. Davis Grubb was an American novelist and short story writer. Born in Moundsville, West Virginia, Grubb wanted to combine his creative skills as a painter with writing and as such attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. However, his color blindness was a handicap he could not overcome and as such gave up on painting to dedicate himself to writing fiction. He did however do a number of drawings and sketches during the course of his career, some of which were incorporated into his writings. In 1940, Grubb moved to New York City where he worked at NBC radio as a writer while using his free time to write short stories. In the mid 1940s he was successful in selling several short stories to major magazines and in the early 1950s he starting writing a full length novel. Influenced by accounts of economic hardship by depression-era Americans that his mother had seen first hand as a social worker, Grubb produced a dark tale that mixed the plight of poor children and adults with that of the evil inflicted by others. His first novel, The Night of the Hunter , became an instant bestseller and was voted a finalis

• Binding: Hardcover

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