title: The Grand Chorus of Complaint: Authors and the Business Ethics of American Publishing
author:  Michael J. Everton 
description: <br />"Michael J. Everton has provided a fascinating account, supported by deep historical and archival research, of the contentious dealings between authors and publishers that occur along the ragged line between art and commerce." --James L. W. West III, author of <em>American Authors and the Literary</em> <em>Marketplace since 1900</em>
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  About the Author
  
  
  Austin Wright was born in New York in 1922. He was a novelist, an academic
  and, for many years, Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati. He
  lived with his wife and daughters in Cincinnati, and died in 2003 at the age
  of eighty.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  First published in the United States in 1993 by Baskerville Publishers Ltd.
  
  
  Originally published in Great Britain in 1994 by Touchstone,  
  an imprint of Simon & Schuster Ltd.
  
  
  Reissued in Great Britain in hardback and export  
  and airside trade paperback in 2010 by Atlantic Books,  
  an imprint of Grove Atlantic Ltd.
  
  
  Copyright © Austin Wright, 1993
  
  
  The moral right of Austin Wright to be identified as the author of this work
  has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents
  Act of 1988.
  
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in
  a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic,
  