In this coming Sunday’ New York Times Magazine, author Chris Offutt gives readers a taste of his forthcoming memoir about his father’s long and unorthodox writing career. If the article is any indication, the memoir is going to be a keeper.
Off the top, Offutt explains that to finance the cost of his braces, dad Andrew Jefferson Offutt V got into writing pornographic novels. In the end, from a home base in Taylorsville, Kentucky, pops would for this very profitable endeavor use 17 different pseudonyms:
My father’s first published novel was Bondage Babes, released by Greenleaf under the name Alan Marshall in 1968.
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