Letters, 1962-1984.

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Letters, 1962-1984.

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Consists of letters from author Robert Albert Bloch, 1917- , in Los Angeles, California, to writer Michael Avallone, 1924- , in New Jersey. Both authors have had very productive careers and have published under various pseudonyms as well as their own names. Bloch has produced numerous screenplays, television series scripts, novels, and short stories, and works predominantly in the science fiction and mystery fields, concentrating on macabre or horror tales. In his letters to Avallone, Bloch describes, and laments, the inconveniences of making one's living as a professional writer, and the precariousness of the writer's market. He also offers frequent and cogent comments on films and film stars, both fiction and non-fiction books, various science fiction and mystery writers' conventions, Avallone's productivity, and current events. Other items in the collection include two cards from Bloch's wife Eleanor to Avallone, copies of letters from Bloch to Morgan Wilson, one of which carries an appended note from Wilson to Avallone, and three letters from Avallone to Bloch.

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Avallone, Michael

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Writer. From the description of Letters, 1962-1984. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 36382245 ...

Bloch, Robert, 1917-1994

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Robert Bloch was best known as the author of "Psycho." He was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1917. He attended schools in Maywood, Illinois and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He worked as a free lance writer from 1934-1942. He then spent 11 years as a copywriter for a Milwaukee advertising agency before returning to freelance writing in 1953. He wrote primarily fantasy and suspense fiction. Bloch's most famous book was "Psycho," but he wrote other books including "Straitjacket," "The Psychopath," "Out of t...