Paul Little

Paul Hugo Little (1915–1987) was an American pulp fiction writer and author of the historical novels forming the Windhaven series and The Hawk and the Dove series. He is acclaimed as perhaps this country`s most prolific writer, and produced more than 700 romantic, historic and pornographic novels published under a number of different pen names. The Guinness Book of World Records lists a South African woman, Kathleen Lindsay, as the most prolific writer with 904 novels. Mr. Little believed he was second, averaging a novel every week and a half since 1963. Paul was a Chicago native born on February 5, 1915. He he graduated from Northwestern University with a B.S. degree in Journalism (after having transferred from the University of Chicago where he started in 1932). His father was Israel Isaac Litwinsky (also changed to Little), a Russia-born, Polish linen merchant; his mother was Ida Marie (Demont) Litwinsky. He married Helen Mary McGrew, a teacher and designer, on April 3, 1941. Little was many things- CPL wrote: Before he became a writer, he worked as an educator, broadcaster, advertising manager, sales manager, announcer, account executive, and translator. He also taught fiction in the City Colleges of Chicago. But that really doesn't do him justice. He was a critic of fine food and wine for Hospitality Magazine, as well as an extremely eclectic music critic- reviewing such diverse music as the Vienna Philharmonic in The Hyde Park Herald and folk music in an article in Down Beat: Seeger Helps Restore American Folk Heritage, extolling Pete Seeger. He was Associate Editor of Musical Leader magazine from 1944 thru 1952. For Chess magazine, Little contributed Baden-Baden 1870 The First Tourney Interrupted by War. He wrote articles for Chess Review, tried his hand at poetry and had a poem published in American Poetry Magazine, in Sept. 1934 An acquaintance wrote of Little: The man of a 1000 pseudonyms was born Paul Hugo Litwinsky in Chicago to wealthy merchants. Little ultimately became one of America's most prolific writers with over 700 novels and books to his credit. They are almost all porn of the poorest literary quality. A chess expert, he has a few chess instructionals to his name, and wrote a book in 1965 titled "The Procurers," a title about one of Chicago's most notorious call-girls who had her phones unilaterally turned off by the sheriff of Cook County. Some believe this book is fiction. It is not. My uncle, Elmer Gertz, in his day one of the U.S.'s most celebrated civil liberties and First Amendment attorneys (he won Tropic of Cancer's first case in the U.S.), was this woman's advocate in her suit against the sheriff and, natch, got her off hook and back on the phone. I once possessed a copy of this book that Little had inscribed to my uncle. I sold it ten years ago. It is now online and selling for $150. Geez... One day someone will write at length about this character, known primarily for his porn work under the pseudonym, "A. Grandamour," who, according to my uncle (who knew him well), was a spoiled rich Jewish kid, well-educated, who turned his back on his family and background, was thrown out of the Chicago branch of The Standard Club, the social organization for successful Jews, for conduct unbecoming, married an Episcopalian, converted to Christianity, and then churned out so much crude erotica that he surely could not have had time to perform his connubial responsibilities. While the man above describes Little's works as "porn of the poorest literary quality," this wasn't a consensus. Most critics of that genre seemed to believe that Little's writing transcended the traditional quality. For instance, Vintage Sleaze writes: Paul Hugo Little (born Paul Hugo Litwinsky) was one of the most curious figures in American letters. To find a comparable character, one would need to reanimate Vladimir Nabokov to invent him, for he was among other things -- a businessman, a professor, a writer, a chess champion and…

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