Fundamental of Fiction Writing

Arthur Sullivant Hoffman worked with several magazines: The Chatauquan, The Smart Set, and Watson’s Magazine, before moving on to become managing editor of Transatlantic Tales, and The Delineator, where he worked with Theodore Dreiser. Hoffman also wrote a number of short stories for Everybody’s Magazine and McClure’s Magazine, including a humorous series about the adventures of a Irishman, Patsy Moran.

When the Ridgway company decided to launch a pulp magazine, Adventure. Hoffman was on Adventure’s staff from its beginning, and succeeded Trumbull White as editor.

Writer Lee Server describes Adventure under Hoffman’s editorship as “inarguably one of the handful of great pulp publications” and magazine historian Mike Ashley states in its that under Hoffman: “Adventure, along with Blue Book and Argosy, was one of the top three American pulp magazines to which all such authors aspired to contribute.”
After leaving Adventure, Hoffman worked as the editor of McClure’s Magazine before retiring to New York. Hoffman wrote some of the first books on creative writing and how to sell such writing commercially, including The Writing of Fiction.