Westlake: he wrote a number of Monarch sex books as Edwin
West. Now to
show you just how inexact this information is, I have read
that Alan
Marshall was a Westlake soft-core pen name (there is one book
listed as
co-written by Marshall and Sheldon Lord), but it is not
identified in
the copyright card catalog as a pseudonym. Given that many
(all?) of
these were probably works for hire, with the copyright owned
by the
publisher, there was little reason to be very meticulous
about recording
the true author on the form. As a matter of fact, many names
that have
been confirmed were not initially identified as pen names,
including
Block's Kavanagh and Westlake's Tucker Coe, Thomas J. Culver,
Curt Clark
and J. Morgan Cunningham.
Was it commonly known that he wrote as Richard Stark
initially? I think
Westlake used Curt Clark only for one sf novel. His other
pseudonym, Samuel
Holt, was used to write four very soft boiled, non humorous
mysteries.
Their protagonist was Sam Holt. Supposedly these are the only
mysteries he
doesn't want grouped with all of his other books in mystery
bookstores.
Mark Blumenthal
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