Legends of the Underwood #6: Orrie Hitt

Hitt had a grinding regimen, twelve-hour days in front of an aged Remington Royal perched on the kitchen table, surrounded by iced coffee, noisy children and Winston cigarettes, pausing only for supper or to watch wrestling or Sergeant Bilko on the television. Hitt produced a novel every two weeks, for which he was paid as little as $250.

—Lee Server in Over My Dead Body: The Sensational Age of the American Paperback: 1945-1955

(Sixth in a series. Hitt was a master of the... um, erotic paperback original, in case you were thinking of ordering up a stack. Also, Server's book is very highly recommended.)

Update: James Reasoner, a modern-day Legend of the Underwood himself, heard from Orrie Hitt's daughter. Read all about it here.