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    American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction

    James Thorne Smith, Jr.was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith.

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    children's writer

    novelist

    screenwriter

    writer

    About the Thorne Smith

    James Thorne Smith, Jr.was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith. He is best known today for the two Topper novels, comic fantasy fiction involving sex, much drinking and ghosts. With racy illustrations, these sold millions of copies in the 1930s and were equally popular in paperbacks of the 1950s.

    3 Quotes by Thorne Smith

    1. 1.

      Like life itself my stories have no point and get absolutely nowhere.

      Thorne Smith

      American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction

    2. 2.

      Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved.

      Thorne Smith

      American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction

    3. 3.

      Without so much as turning a hair I freely admit that I am one of America’s greatest realists.

      Thorne Smith

      American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction