num_pages: 254
description: Just how did Cal Cunningham—a twenty-five-year-old bookstore stockboy who is new to Manhattan and who has never written anything—publish a bestselling novel that sells to the movies for a million dollars?A mysterious roommate, a timely bike accident, and the rapacious literary agent Blackie Yaeger all play a role in Cal's success.Deception, blackmail, and murder all play a role in his desperate bid to hold on to it.And About the Author is his first-person account of how he performed this remarkable feat.
language: English
title: About the Author
titlecomplete: About the Author
characters: Cal Cunningham
genres: Relationships, Books About Books, Mystery, Humor, Suspense, Thriller, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 1368
places: New York (State)
publisher: Harper Perennial