Chaos and Madness [antikvár]

Introduction Stephen Marlowe's latest novels involve a degree of difficulty in terms of interpretation, and attempting to offer an overview of his biography and oeuvre also presents a challenge. Hardly any academic articles have been written about Marlowe's fiction and the only information retrievable from the Internet consists of a few partial biographical notes and some listings - none of them taxonomic - of the novels and short stories he wrote under a variety of pseudonyms. This is completed by an interview for Publishers Weekly1 and Marlowe's own casual participation in a literary blog (Gormania) in January/March 2006, where he expressed his opinions about some of his novels. Only in September 2009 did Greg Shepard, from Stark House Press, announce the beginning of a collaboration process with Marlowe's widow, Canadian writer-editor Ann Humbert, to publish the author's autobiography, Confessions of a Wandering Writer, possibly by the end of 2010.2 Born in 7 August 1928 in Brooklyn, New York, and christened Milton Lesser, in 1958 he officially changed his name to Stephen Marlowe - a pseudonym he used for publishing mystery and detective novels. During the first decades of his literary career, Marlowe wrote under several pseudonyms as well as under his real name: Stephen Marlowe, Andrew Frazer, Jason Ridgway, C[hristopher].H. Thames, Darius John Granger, Steve Wilder, and Adam Chase. After leaving Brooklyn to get a BA in philosophy from William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia, Marlowe returned to New York in 1949. There he worked as an executive editor at the Scott Meredith Literary Agency3 until he started making money with his detective and 1 Wendy Smith, "Stephen Marlowe: Rootless in Art and in Life", Publishers Weekly, 18 November 1996, 50-51. Cullen Gallagher, "Interview with Greg Shepard of Stark House Press", Pulp Serenade: A Home for Pulp, Noir, Hardboiled, Mystery, and Crime Literature. Vintage Artwork and Quotes for Every Book!, 2009 (http://www.pulpserenade.com/ 2009/09/interview-with-greg-shepard-of-stark.html). 3 Smith, "Stephen Marlowe", 50.