Knowra Harold Robbins Harold Robbins Harold Robbins (1916–1997) was an American novelist whose bestselling popular fiction, including The Carpetbaggers and A Stone for Danny Fisher, often centered on ambition, wealth, sex, and power.
The Carpetbaggers : A 1961 novel by Harold Robbins about a powerful aviation and film entrepreneur and the people around him. Its Hollywood setting and enormous sales made it Robbins’s signature novel.
Pulp fiction : Popular fiction published in inexpensive magazines, often emphasizing sensational plots and accessible prose. Robbins’s fast-moving, high-stakes storytelling shares conventions with pulp fiction.
Bestseller : A book that achieves high sales, often measured by a published sales list. Robbins became one of the most commercially successful novelists of his era.
Literary fiction : Fiction commonly valued for formal experimentation, psychological complexity, or stylistic distinction. Robbins’s commercial pacing and sensational subjects were often set against literary prestige.
A Stone for Danny Fisher : A 1952 novel by Harold Robbins about a Jewish boy growing up amid poverty and crime in New York City. This earlier novel established themes and conflicts that recurred in Robbins’s fiction.
Hollywood : The American film industry and its production center in Los Angeles, California. Film-industry power and celebrity provide recurring settings and subjects in his novels.
Book-to-film adaptation : A film made by adapting a narrative first published in book form. Several Robbins novels reached wider audiences through screen adaptations.
Jacqueline Susann : An American novelist whose bestselling books include Valley of the Dolls. Susann shared Robbins’s market for fiction about sex, celebrity, and ambition.
Where Love Has Gone : A 1962 novel by Harold Robbins involving a murder trial, a family scandal, and Hollywood society. It extends Robbins’s interest in celebrity, sex, and scandal.
American Dream : The ideal that people can achieve prosperity and opportunity through effort in the United States. Robbins repeatedly dramatizes characters pursuing wealth, status, and success.
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