A LIGHT THAT STILL GLOWS
Dec 18, 2021
2 minutes
ROBERT L. MAY WAS DOWN IN THE DUMPS. It was early 1939 and the life May was living was not what he had hoped for.
A copywriter for the retail and catalog giant Montgomery Ward in Chicago, May (1905-1976) was almost 35, heavily in debt and grinding out catalog copy. “Instead of writing the great American novel, as I once hoped,” May would later recall, “I was
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