Arthur D. Howden Smith -- 75 Years Gone
Arthur D. Howden Smith was one of the star authors for Adventure Magazine alongside Harold Lamb and Talbot Mundy. Smith died in near obscurity on December 18, 1945. He deserved better than that.
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The combination of Robert Louis Stevenson’s prose and N.C. Wyeth’s art was one of the great pairings in the history of book publishing.
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Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh on this day in 1850. Whether it be historical adventure or cautionary weird tale, Stevenson's prose is exhilarating and compelling enough to persist long after his death 120 years ago, and his legacy as an author is more than assured among the literary giants of eternity.
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