1. Conroy’s works consist of two novels, The Disinherited and A World to Win, several children’s books, and They Seek the City, a history of Negro migration written in collaboration with Arna Bontemps with the assistance of a Guggenheim Fellowship.

2. An informative pamphlet on literary agents can be obtained from the Society of Authors Representatives, 522 Fifth Avenue, New York 36.

Transcriber’s Note:
  • The errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here.
  • Where hyphenation occurs on a line break, the decision to retain or remove is based on occurrences elsewhere in the text.
  • Errors in punctuation and quotes have been silently restored.
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reference correction original text
7.4  occupied occuped by a painter
34.32 bookstore moving her Gold Coast book store
37.31 sometimes sometimes tight and drawn, some times
41.20 impression and the only inpression you can
44.10 bestseller who wrote a best-seller thirty
65.19 similar who hold similiar views on
66.19 became if one of the “faithful” become
68.2  conflict my inner conflct remained
88.29 bestsellers under the pop numbers and best-sellers
88.31 Malcolm Malcom Cowley, the distinguished critic
95.26 Terkel Turkel’s famous “Studs’ Place”
100.13 stick-up ‘This is a stickup!’
106.13 and ad civic responsibility
106.17 café at a small cafe
111.39 interrupted was often interupted
121.6  sing-song low, almost singsong voices
131.2  We we lived at 1639 South
150.9  interrupted interupted whatever I was
101.26 hardcover copies of the hard-cover book
174.19 say was really meant to say that
175.1  old-time old time actor in it
186.4  success as the sucess of the book