Tomorrow We Diet

New York City Ny: George H. Doran, 1922. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 90 Pp. Yellow Cloth Illustrated In Black. First Printing, With Gd Logo And "I" In Copyright Page. Near Fine, In Very Good Dust Jacket Priced One Dollar. Nina Wilcox Putnam (1888 -1962) Was An American Novelist, Screenwriter And Playwright. She Wrote More Than 500 Short Stories, Around 1000 Magazine Articles, And Several Books In Addition To Regular Newspaper Columns, Serials, Comic Books And Children's Literature. Many Of Her Stories Were Made Into Films, Including A Story That Was The Basis For The 1932 Film The Mummy Starring Boris Karloff. She Was Home Schooled By Her Father, Who Taught English At Yale And Was An Editor Of Harper's Weekly And The Encyclopedia Americana. She Married Publisher Robert Faulkner Putnam In 1907, Taking His Last Name. She Drafted The First Us Income Tax 1040 Form For The Internal Revenue Service In 1912. She Was Diagnosed With Tuberculosis And Given Two Years To Live, An Experience She Wrote About In 1922 In The Saturday Evening Post. Putnam Was A Prolific Writer, Penning Romances, Westerns, Musical Comedies And Gothic Horror. She Wrote Pieces For The Saturday Evening Post And Had A Syndicated Column Called "I And George" That Was Carried In 400 Newspapers.[ She Also Wrote Children's Books And Created A Comic Book Series For Children Called Sunny Bunny. In 1928 Or 1929 She Began The Comic Strip Witty Kitty. Putnam Was Also A Vocal Advocate For Victorian Dress Reform, Decrying The Horrors Of Corsets And Experimenting With Her Own Dress Designs. The Screenplay For The 1932 Film The Mummy Starring Boris Karloff Was Adapted From An Original Story By Putnam And Richard Schayer. Hollywood Made Several Of Putnam's Stories Into Movies, Including Graft, A Game Chicken (1922),[ The Fourth Horseman, In Search Of Arcady, Sitting Pretty, Slaves Of Beauty, Two Weeks With Pay, The Beauty Prize, A Lady's Profession (1933) And Golden Harvest. She Wrote The Screenplay For Democracy: The Vision Restored (1920) And The 1953 Film El Billetero Was Adapted From Her Story. She Was Estimated To Have Earned One Million Dollars From Her Writing By 1942. She Had Homes In New York, Hollywood And Delray Beach, Florida, And Once Purchased A Castle In Spain.