Noel Gerson

Noel Bertram Gerson (1913–1988) was an American author who wrote 325 books, including several best sellers, among them two screenplay novelizations penned under the pseudonym Samuel Edwards, The Naked Maja, and 55 Days at Peking. He also wrote under the following nine pseudonyms: Anne Marie Burgess; Michael Burgess; Nicholas Gorham; Paul Lewis; Leon Phillips; Donald Clayton Porter; Dana Fuller Ross; Philip Vail; and Carter A. Vaughan. Quotes Daughter of Earth and Water (1973) New York: William Morrow & Co. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was destined from her birth, on August 30, 1797, to be different, out of step in both thoughts and feelings with ordinary minds and mundane emotions. The very nature of her unorthodox, controversial parents guaranteed that the child of their union would be dissimilar to anyone else who came into the world at the turn of the nineteenth century. Ch. 1 (p. 1) Marriage was a noble institution, she declared, provided the husband did not take unfair advantage of his superior legal position and the wife did not succumb to the pressures of society and become a nonentity. Ch. 1 (pp. 4–5) Seeing some of the most famous men of the day when they were relaxing over a jar of sack, a bottle of port or an occasional glass of whiskey also gave her an opportunity to observe their idiosyncrasies, and confirmed her belief that only the timid, the insecure and the ignorant conformed to the rules that society made. Ch. 2 (p. 18) The woods and mountains opened her eyes to the beauty of Nature, and the teenaged city girl marveled at views that Isabel regarded as commonplace. At the beginning of Mary’s sojourn she was inclined to take a book to a rustic place with a view, then spend hours there alone, reading, brooding and daydreaming. But she soon learned that woods and mountains were made for hiking, and thereafter she rarely took a book with her on her daily excursions into the outdoors. Ch. 2 (p. 23) Colorado! (1981) New York: Bantam Books 0-553-14717-X [as by "Dana Fuller Ross"] He clapped a hand over her mouth. She bit him hard, sinking her teeth into the heel of his hand. Scarcely aware of the pain, Tracy grasped her throat with his free hand, his strong fingers cutting off her supply of air. . . . Bessie struggled furiously, trying to kick him in the groin, her hands clawing frantically at his face, but he held her at arm's length. When he felt her beginning to sag, his other hand moved from her mouth to her throat. Feeling no pity, no compassion for this young woman with whom he had made love only a short time earlier, he squeezed her throat until her life ebbed from her body. Ch. 9 (p. 274) External links Category:1913 births Category:1988 deaths Category:Novelists from the United States Category:Screenwriters from the United States