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Article: KORDA: WHAT MAKES A TOP EDITOR WRITE?
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 25, 1989
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For Michael Korda, Simon & Schuster's editor-in-chief, the
transforming moment -- the juncture at which he decided to expand
his artistic horizons by becoming a writer -- occurred during a
visit some years ago to the Los Angeles home of a good friend and
client, the prolific novelist Irving Wallace.
"In his study, Irving had a wall full of books, all of them
his books -- in all kinds of foreign languages: French, German,
Finnish, Croat. . . ."
"On the one hand . . ." Korda began, not completing the
sentence, but shrugging and frowning to indicate that part of him
considered such a display vulgar, perhaps even narcissistic. Ah,
but on the other hand, "the idea of a wall full of books ...