PROLIFIC NOVELIST

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 384, 16 March 1937, Page 5

PROLIFIC NOVELIST

Woman Surpassing Edgar Wallace. , London, February T 3. Writing at the rate of a million words a year, Miss Maysie Greig, the novelist, is now surpassing Edgar Wallace for output. Just over 30, she has aready 30 publitued books to her credA, and her pen becomes more prolific. In the last year she has written six novels, the latest of winch “New Moon Through a Window,” will shortly be issued. “Mott of her actual Writing is done at her charming country residence—- | a modernised Tudor house near Andover,” her secretary told an ihterv.iewer this week. “She keeps a strict timetable, working from ten in the morning till six in the evening. 57he speed of her composition is amazing.” Mits Greig always writes love stories. “I write happy love stories because I believe that happiness is the greatest virtue in the world anil misery the greatest sin,” she says.