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]
William Wallace Cook | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 11, 1868 Marshall, Calhoun County, Michigan, United States |
| Died | July 20, 1933 (aged 65) Marshall, Calhoun County, Michigan, United States |
| Occupation | Author |
| Genre | Westerns and Dime novels |
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]
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.
Works
edit- 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
edit- ^ "William Wallace Cook papers". The New York Public Library Archives and Manuscripts. The New York Public Library. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
- ^ "Authors : Cook, William Wallace : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2021-08-20.
- ^ "'Plotto': An Algebra Book For Fiction Writing". NPR.org. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
External links
edit- Works by William Wallace Cook at Project Gutenberg
- Works by William Wallace Cook at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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