Air Jacob Schwartz's bibliography oi A E. Coppard contains sonic entertaining notes by its subject. One ot: them is his retort to a lady who sent him one of his own books with the request that ho "write something" about his favourite character in it: If yuil will luive Ho? yoodncss t" '■•ut the yet unopened ji'T-CS J'fii vill tind »j' out 70,000 wisely printed words of mine uooui. nil my characters, but my is the one whose name appears only on Iho title pas l '' ''l as not. even thanked tor thai valuable pleasantry," says Mr Coppard, "but I daresay the book has a different owner now." Among the English authors who pay large sums in income-tax in tlio States is Bernard Shaw, who. according to official .estimation, draws on an average, 80,000 dollars a. year from America in royalties nn his pls-ys.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20316, 15 August 1931, Page 13
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