trying to tell me something?
So, I first recall coming across Alexander Woollcott in the Mencken bio I read a while back. Later noticed him popping up regularly in a collection of Dorothy Parker's work. Then he appeared as a major player in Harpo Marx's autobiography, being one of Harpo's closest friends throughout his adult life, and apparently a truly fascinating person. This past weekend I picked up a copy of The Woollcott Reader (a collection of short stories and novellas Woollcott favored) at a book sale. There's a piece of his personalized stationery taped inside the front cover, on which is written "with my compliments", and the flyleaf is inscribed to someone who Google says was one of Booth Tarkington's grandnephews. I assume his ghost is going to pop out of my closet sometime next week.