"Plus Blood in Their Veins" by Robert Paul Smith. Avon 399 (1952). Uncredited cover art.
“The Critics cheered . . . You’ll cheer too, when you read this great novel about four young men and their not-too-quiet way of living in New York’s most exciting playground!”
Robert Paul Smith (1915-1977) was an American author, most famous for his classic evocation of the inner life of childhood, “Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing.” Smith was born in Brooklyn, grew up in Mount Vernon, NY, and graduated from Columbia College in 1936. He worked as a writer for CBS Radio and wrote four novels “So It Doesn’t Whistle” (1941, later reprinted by Avon as “Plus Blood in Their Veins”); “The Journey” (1943); “Because of My Love (1946); and “The Time and the Place” (1951). He and co-creator Max Shulman wrote the play “The Tender Trap,” which opened in 1954 with Robert Preston in the leading role. It was later made into a movie starring Frank Sinatra and Debbie Reynolds.
"Plus Blood in Their Veins" by Robert Paul Smith. Avon 399 (1952). Uncredited cover art.
“The Critics cheered . . . You’ll cheer too, when you read this great novel about four young men and their not-too-quiet way of living in New York’s most exciting playground!”
Robert Paul Smith (1915-1977) was an American author, most famous for his classic evocation of the inner life of childhood, “Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing.” Smith was born in Brooklyn, grew up in Mount Vernon, NY, and graduated from Columbia College in 1936. He worked as a writer for CBS Radio and wrote four novels “So It Doesn’t Whistle” (1941, later reprinted by Avon as “Plus Blood in Their Veins”); “The Journey” (1943); “Because of My Love (1946); and “The Time and the Place” (1951). He and co-creator Max Shulman wrote the play “The Tender Trap,” which opened in 1954 with Robert Preston in the leading role. It was later made into a movie starring Frank Sinatra and Debbie Reynolds.