Fast Company

Marco Page (1908–1968) was the mystery pseudonym of novelist, playwright, and screenwriter Harry Kurnitz. His first book, Fast Company, won the Dodd, Mead Red Badge Prize for Best First Mystery Novel. He wrote only a few more novels but is credited with over forty screenplays, including Witness for the Prosecution, several Thin Man pictures, and William Wyler’s How to Steal a Million.

Nicholas A. Basbanes is the author of nine works of cultural history, with a particular emphasis on various aspects of books, book history, and book culture. In addition to his books, Basbanes has written for numerous newspapers, magazines, and journals, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post, and lectures widely on a variety of cultural subjects. Among his most well-known titles are A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books and On Paper: The Everything of Its Two Thousand Year History.