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Schmidt teamed up with lyricist, director and storywriter Tom Jones on “The Fantasticks” as well as the Broadway shows “110 in the Shade” and “I Do! I Do!”

Mosher says in the letter he hopes an aspiring storywriter finds the books “inspiring and helpful.”

The bronze statue - a tribute to Danish storywriter Hans Christian Andersen - is perched on a rock in the harbour and attracts millions of visitors.

Somerset Maugham, a more successful storywriter, whom Wilson calls a "half-trashy novelist . . . patronized by half-serious readers," considers Hecate County "so execrably bad you wonder whether it's worth reading what he has to say about other people's novels."