Authors and Illustrators Database

Born: 04/11/1867  Marshall
Died: 07/20/1933
Parents: Charles R. and Jane E. Cook
Spouse: 1st-Anna Gertrude Slater; 2nd-Mary A. Ackley

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Adrift in the Unknown: or Queer Adventures in A Queer Realm - Reprint of the 1905 ed. published by Street & Smith Corp., New York...first published in The Argosy, December 1904-April 1905	Science Fiction	Children	New York, Arno Press	1975
	Comrades of the Glory Road : a novel of Marshall	Michigan History	Adult	Marshall, MI : photocopy of pages from Marshall chronicle	1933
	Plotto: A New Method of Plot Suggestion for Writers of Creative Fiction - A plot generator is a fictional plot device which permits the generation of plots for an extended serial without requiring a great deal of logical connection between the episodes. Cook describes his plot generator in detail.	Non Fiction	Adult	Battle Creek, Mich., Ellis publishing company	1928
	Cast Away at the Pole - first published in The Argosy in March 1904	Fiction	Adult	New York: Arno Press	1926
	Marooned in 1492, or Under Fortune's Flag - first published in The Argosy, August-December 1905	Science Fiction	Adult	New York: Smith and Smith	1925
	Around the World in Eighty Hours: An Adventure Story	Fiction, Adventure	Adult	New York: Chelsea House	1925
	The Fiction Factory: Being the Experience of a Writer Who, for Twenty-Two Years, has Kept a Story Mill Grinding Successfully -  as by John Milton Edwards	Non Fiction	Adult	Ridgewood, N.J., The Editor company	1912
	A Quarter to Four	Fiction	Adult	New York: G.W. Dillingham Co.	1909
	The Desert Argonaut	Fiction	Adult	New York: Smith and Smith	1908
	Wilby's Dan	Fiction	Adult	New York: Dodd, Mead	1904
	A Round Trip to the Year 2000, or A Flight Through Time - first published in The Argosy, July-November 1903	Science Fiction	Adult	New York: Street and Smith	1903
	His Friend the Enemy	Fiction	Adult	New York: G.W. Dillingham Co.	1903
	Diamond Dick, Jr's Call Down	Fiction	Adult	New York: Street & Smith Publishing Company	1896
	Other writings: - Screenplays, hundreds of stories, regular contributor to Rough Rider Weekly. Articles in Detroit Free Press, Puck, Truth	Fiction	Children

What is the aim or goal of your writing: Reuben W. Borough, Michigan History, June, 1964 says: "He was known as a fabricator of serials for pulp magazines...lived in rural grandeur on a Kalamazoo Avenue estate at town's end. Cook was an amazing writer--he could turn out ten thousand words of clean copy a day. Once a week he would be seen in the evening, jauntily swinging his cane, on the way to the mailbox at the Michigan Central depot, there to deposit a fat envelope containing his obligatory shipment to Street and Smith. The town was quite proud of him." About half of his hundreds of stories were arbitrarily given western settings, the rest were science fiction, mystery, circus, sea, and rags-to-riches tales.

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Cook's papers are housed in The New York Public Library, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division (See http://archives.nypl.org/uploads/collection/pdf_finding_aid/cookww.pdf)

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