The Fabulous Originals: Lives of Extraordinary People Who Inspired Memorable Characters in Fiction
by: Wallace, Irving

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket that's price-clipped, 316 pages. This book is a fascinating combination of literary detection and biography, capturing lives of extraordinary people who inspired memorable characters in ficiton.