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Wright, Willard Huntington

Willard Huntington Wright was an American critic and editor. He was born in Virginia, attended Harvard and later studied art in Paris and Munich. He was employed as an art and literature critic at the Los Angeles Times and between 1912 and 1914 he edited Smart Set magazine, popular among the American jet set. He also wrote several seminal works on art, philosophy, literature and culture as well...

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Julie Hayes

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Author Dorothy Salisbury Davis created an unusual female problem-solver in the form of Julie Hayes. She is a middle-aged woman, who was raped in her youth, which led to mental problems. She tests several different professions, including that of a gossip columnist and a fortune teller, and for a long time lives in a dysfunctional marriage with an older man. And she also gets involved in crimes in...

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