William Wallace Cook
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William Wallace Cook | |
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Born | Marshall, Calhoun County, Michigan, United States |
April 11, 1868
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Marshall, Calhoun County, Michigan, United States |
Occupation | Author |
Genre | Westerns and Dime novels |
William Wallace Cook (1867-1933) also known by the pen-name John Milton Edwards, was an American journalist and writer of popular fiction. His works include westerns, adventure stories, dime novels, serials and screen and stage plays.[1] He is best remembered for his science-fiction works.[2]
Cook also created Plotto, a system for plot suggestion and content structure that fiction writers can use. This came out in the 1920s, and in 1934 came out with a 7 part instruction guide.[3]
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As by John Milton Edwards he wrote The Fiction Factory: Being the Experience of a Writer Who, for Twenty-Two Years, has Kept a Story-Mill Grinding Successfully in 1912.
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The home of William Wallace Cook
Works
- Cast Away at the Pole (1904)
- Adrift in the Unknown (1905)
- Marooned in 1492 (1905)
- The Fiction Factory (1912)
- Gold Grabbers (1914)
- Around The World In Eighty Hours (1920)
- A Round Trip to the Year 2000 (1925)
- Plotto (1928).
- Plotto: The Master Book of All Plots (1934, 1941)
References
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