Dorothea Brande

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox person Dorothea Brande (12 January 1892 – 12 December 1948) was an American writer and editor in New York City. She wrote Becoming a Writer in 1934, which remains in print today.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Biography

Alice Dorothea Alden Thompson was born in Chicago on 12 January 1892. She attended the University of Chicago, the Lewis Institute and the University of Michigan. She married fellow Chicago newspaper reporter Herbert Brande in 1916. They divorced sometime before 1930.

Her book Becoming a Writer (pub. 1934) offers advice for beginning and sustaining any writing enterprise and remains in print today.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Wake Up and Live (pub. 1936)<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> which sold more than a million copies.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> was used as the inspiration for the comedy film Wake Up and Live in 1937.

While she was serving as associate editor of The American Review she married the journal's owner and editor, Seward Collins in 1936.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Collins also served as the managing editor of The Bookman. Collins was a prominent literary figure in New York and a proponent of an American version of fascism.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Brande died in Boston on 17 December 1948.<ref name=imdb>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Selected works

Books

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Short stories

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External links

• Read 'Becoming a Writer' online at archive.org
• Read 'Wake Up and Live' online at archive.org
• 'Fascist Sympathies: On Dorothea Brande', The Nation, 13 August 2013
• Four part podcast series that explores 'Wake Up and Live' through the lens of Frank Sinatra. 1, 2, 3, 4
• Wake Up and Live 1937 Film
• What does 'Act as if it were impossible to fail' really mean?
• Correspondence - These "Papers of H.L. Mencken 1912-1949" includes correspondence from Mencken to Dorothea Brande.
• Quotes of Dorothea Brande
• Dorothea Brande at 'The Open Library'
• Dorothea Brande at 'The Internet Archive'