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How did your relationship with Marquand come up? I remember seeing it in the scrapbook. I can't remember exactly. I looked at that a little while ago. It must have been some...

He was a judge of the Book-of-the-Month Club. I met him at dinners with the Schermans, and he'd be at these cocktail parties that the Schermans gave. He was an utterly charming man.

But you were never able to get him?

I never tried to. Oh, no. He was an established Little, Brown author. We don't go out stealing other peoples‘authors.

Well, it's different. I think that it's a gentleman's business to a certain extent.

There are some publishers who are absolutely ruthless about stealing authors. I'm not going to leave this in the book, but one of the finest gentlemen in the publishing business certainly has no scruples about stealing authors and that's Cass Canfield. He thinks that any author's fair game for him. If it was somebody that I disliked, I'd have been outraged; but I love Cass and take that as part of him. He's a pirate! So, if we can ever get a Harper author, of