![]() ![]() When the agency did not have an appropriate client’s manuscript in hand, the aspiring writers on staff were encouraged to contribute. ![]() Like many others come to town with a similar goal in that period-Donald Westlake, Damon Knight, Lawrence Block, and others-Knoles found work at the Scott Meredith Agency, at the time a kind of literary chop shop that supplied standing orders for pulp fiction to some of the new paperback houses and fiction digests. Knoles immigrated-from where we do not know-to New York City in the ’50s to find his way in the writing game. Knoles, ranks among the more talented and tragic figures to come through the paperback jungle. ![]() The subject of a posthumous cult following for his once obscure, now hotly collected paperback spy spoofs of the mid-to-late 1960s, Clyde Allison, the pseudonym of William H. ![]()
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