Malcolm Lowley writes on The Literary Situation (1958; first published 1947): "Aside from the hard-working authors of textbooks, standard juveniles, mysteries

Malcolm Lowley writes on The Literary Situation (1958; first published 1947): "Aside from the hard-working authors of textbooks, standard juveniles, mysteries and Westerns, I doubt that two hundred Americans earned the major portion of their incomes, year after year, by writing hard-cover books". This was before television took over.