Paul Little

1915–1987

Paul Hugo Little (1915–1987) was an American pulp fiction writer and author of the historical novels forming the Windhaven series and The Hawk and the Dove series. He is acclaimed as perhaps this country`s most prolific writer, and produced more than 700 romantic, historic and pornographic novels published under a number of different pen names. The Guinness Book of World Records lists a South African woman, Kathleen Lindsay, as the most prolific writer with 904 novels. Mr. Little believed he was second, averaging a novel every week and a half since 1963. Paul was a Chicago native born on February 5, 1915. He he graduated from Northwestern University with a B.S. degree in Journalism (after having transferred from the University of Chicago where he started in 1932). His father was Israel Isaac Litwinsky (also changed to Little), a Russia-born, Polish linen merchant; his mother was Ida Marie (Demont) Litwinsky. He married Helen Mary McGrew, a teacher and designer, on April 3, 1941. Little was many things- CPL wrote: Before he became a writer, he worked as an educator, broadcaster, advertising manager, sales manager, announcer, account executive, and translator. He also taught fiction in the City Colleges of Chicago. But that really doesn't do him justice. He was a critic of fine food and wine for Hospitality Magazine, as well as an extremely eclectic music critic- reviewing such diverse music as the Vienna Philharmonic in The Hyde Park Herald and folk music in an article in Down

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