John Erskine was born in New York City, the son of a textile merchant. He showed early promise as a pianist and, years later, liked to say that he would have chosen a career in music had not his fath...
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Although today John Erskine cannot be considered anything but a minor writer, one who exerted little lasting influence upon the short-story form itself, his fame in the first two quarters of the twe...
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John Erskine
