Writing Can be a Dangerous Buisiness: The Life and Career of David Grahm Phillips

Last week, I began a new series with a post about writer/editor Martha Foley.

 This week, I'm looking at what happened to journalist and novelist David Graham Phillips.

 

 

 This Wikipedia article has a pretty good overview. And here's a link to a New York Times article called "The Deadliest Book Review."

This is the novel that inspired someone to shoot David Grzham Phillips on the street outside The Princeton Club:

 

 

 While David Graham Phillips may be best remembered for his untimely, violent death, to me he is the author of Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, which became a film of the same name. It starred Greta Garbo and Clark Gable.