{"product_id":"2940013000162","title":"Poor Little Eddie and other stories","description":"Scanned, proofed and corrected from the original edition for your reading pleasure.It is also searchable and contains hyper-links to chapters. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Slavens McNutt (1885 – 1938), was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 28 films between 1922  and 1939. He was nominated for an Academy Award on two separate occasions. At the 1932 awards he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story for \"Lady and Gent.\" In 1936 he was nominated for Adapted Screenplay for the film \"The Lives of \u003cbr\u003ea Bengal Lancer.\" His other screenplays included: \"The Wise Kid\" (1922) and \"Tom Sawyer\" (1930).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the early 1920s he wrote a many short stories for Munsey and others magazines before going on to Hollywood to become a screenwriter.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the age of twenty-five he wrote a brief biography of himself written in the third person (see an excerpt from it below).  One can't help but notice his bouncy writing technique yet lithe style. He didn't invite anyone's sympathy \u003cbr\u003efor the hard years of his youth as he tells his story: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"His father was a Presbyterian minister, which explains much. He had a hate of public schools and educated his son at home... When young McNutt was thirteen his father went to work in an Indiana factory, to find out what people \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003edid between Monday morning and Saturday night. He expected to continue this investigation for only the duration of a few weeks, and so, just for a lark, took his son with him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The lark lasted four years.Just prior to his fourteenth birthday young McNutt went to work as a finishing boy in a \u003cbr\u003elamp chimney factory in Alexandria, Indiana. His ex-preacher father was picking them up and laying them down in a tin-plate mill.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Four queer years of working and bumming all over the country. Factories, farms, box cars, flop houses, Salvation Army wood yards, jungle camps, back doors, railroad bulls, park benches, etc. Intermittent study with his father \u003cbr\u003emeanwhile.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"At the end of that time McNutt Sr. went to chautauqua, and McNutt Jr. went to a private preparatory school in Hartford, Connecticut. Not so hot. He stuck the year out and began entering colleges. Again not so hot. He entered several in the space of a few months and then went back to work as a carpenter near Boston. The following fall he drifted into the Emerson College of Oratory in Boston. He had seen something of lyceum and chautauqua and thought that he might grow up to be a reader with a quartet, or a Swiss bell-ringer or something.\"","brand":"Leila's Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082025189616,"sku":"2940013000162","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013000162_p0.jpg?v=1763575051","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013000162","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}