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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19950802
Author:Robert Taylor, Globe Correspondent

FIREBRAND

The Life of Horace Liveright

By Tom Dardis

Random House, 395 pp., illustrated, $27.50

Sherwood Anderson inscribed a copy of his novel "Dark Laughter" with the following words: "To Horace Liveright who isn't afraid to play, doesn't take life as a funeral procession, keeps going, is loyal and generous with his friends, is no moralist and gets there because he isn't afraid."

Liveright, a high school dropout and ex-Wall Street bond salesman, in three years (1925-27) created a publishing list that now belongs to the canon of modern American literature. In his brief career, ...

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