pulp writer
Cheap fiction author
A pulp writer is an author who produces fiction for pulp magazines—cheap publications printed on rough wood-pulp paper that flourished from the 1920s through the 1950s.
The term suggests rapid, prolific output of genre fiction: detective stories, westerns, science fiction, horror.
By extension, pulp writer describes anyone who writes sensational, plot-driven work without literary pretension: He started as a pulp writer cranking out detective stories for a penny a word.
- dime novelCheap sensational paperback
- dime storeDiscount variety retailer
- hardboiledTough, cynical fiction style
- hard-boiled detectiveCynical, tough private investigator
- detectiveProfessional crime investigator
private eye · noir · femme fatale · magazine · typewriter · hack · potboiler · cheap · lurid · sensational · thriller · gumshoe · true crime · crime · serialized · penny dreadful · sleaze · paperback
- writersauthor, novelist, poet, journalist, essayist
- Genre AuthorsStephen King, Agatha Christie, Isaac Asimov, J.R.R. Tolkien, Arthur C. Clarke
- writer typeschildren's author, graphic novelist, bestselling author
pulp writerman of letters
Erudite author or scholar
Nobel laureate · James Joyce · Virginia Woolf · Toni Morrison · poet laureate
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