On being published / Sherwood Anderson.
Why does nobody collect me? / Robert Benchley.
The sixth man / Stephen Vincent Benet́.
The writing of East wind: west wind / Pearl Buck.
Recipes for writers / James Branch Cabell.
Post-bellum-pre-Harlem / Charles Waddell Chesnutt.
On first getting into print / A. E. Coppard.
The early adventures of Sister Carrie / Theodore Dreiser.
Biography and bibliographies / Joseph Hergesheimer.
First book / Robinson Jeffers.
My memoirs of the Civil War / MacKinlay Kantor.
Alias Kent, by Hogarth, Jr. / Rockwell Kent.
Breaking into print / Sinclair Lewis.
Getting into print / William McFee.
On breaking into type / H. L. Mencken.
The eighth sin / Christopher Morley.
The first seven years / Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Notes for an autobiography / Carl van Vechten.
My first published book / Hugh Walpole.
The writing of Ethan Frome / Edith Wharton.
