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3 unusual facts about hack writer


Edmund Chilmead

Edmund Chilmead (1610 – 19 February 1654) was an English writer and translator, who produced both scholarly works and hack-writing.

Gerard McManus

McManus was awarded the 2004 “Hack of the year” mock award by Hack Watch, an independent blogging site, for the article.

Hack writer

In Jean-Luc Godard's film Contempt (1964), a hack screenwriter is paid to doctor a script.


New English Library

New English Library titles were particularly popular in the early 1970s, when hack writers were hired to work under names such as Richard Allen and Mick Norman to churn out tales of Hells Angels and skinheads.


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Dawn Powell

In 1942, Powell published her first commercially successful novel, A Time to Be Born, whose central figure—Amanda Keeler Evans, an egotistical hack writer whose work and media presence are bolstered by the assiduous promotion of her husband, the newspaper magnate Julian Evans—is loosely modelled on Clare Boothe Luce, wife of Henry Luce.