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IN FRIENDLY CANDOR is the story of an editor in action. In discovering new writers, as in working with established Atlantic authors, Edward Weeks has shown himself to be an editor of integrity and skill. The account of his relationships with those whose books he helped to bring to publication is the heart of this new book. It tells of his education, of his adventures as a young editor, and of his friendships with Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, the war pilots whose collaboration on the BOUNTY TRILOGY and other books was unique; with Mazo de la Roche, whose talent was discovered in the first Atlantic Fiction Contest; with Agnes Newton Keith, the bride in North Borneo who barely survived her three-and-a-half years' imprisonment by the Japanese; with Dr. Harvey Cushing, Hans Zinsser, and other authors old and young. The editor reveres these writers, but he also examines their craftsmanship with a close and intimate knowledge. He has made his taste and enthusiasm felt among a very large number of distinguished writers, and he has enjoyed a personal acquaintance with many of the interesting people of this generation. IN FRIENDLY CANDOR also gives us light, nostalgic passages about holidays on the trout streams and salmon rivers of England, Canada, and New England. And, in conclusion, Edward Weeks writes of the reflective side of an editor's life and of his aspirations for our ever-changing country.

No editor subject to all the demands of his duties has enough free time in which to write a book and certainly this one could never have been brought to its present shape without the patient assistance and the alert rereading of my associates: Phoebe Lou Adams, Virginia Albee, Dorothy R. Burnham, Peter H. Davison, Louise Desaulniers, Emily P. Flint, Charles W. Morton, Nancy E. Reynolds, Donald B. Snyder, and Beverly Yankee. My heartfelt thanks to each and all of them.