She also wrote innumerable stories, articles, and newspaper columns, no less ephemeral than the novels. In 1936, in the midst of the Great Depression, she published five novels in magazine serial form and three earlier serials in volume form and saw four of her works made into motion pictures, for an income that year in excess of $315,000. The popularity of her writing was enormous. Evil, depravity, poverty, and sex found no place in her work, which she explicitly intended for the housewife and the working girl. No matter what the difficulties, honour and goodness triumph, and hero and heroine are united. Typically, a Faith Baldwin book presents a highly simplified version of life among the wealthy. Her last completed novel, Adam's Eden, appeared in 1977. Based on the novel Skyscraper by Faith Baldwin (New York, 1931). Although she often claimed she did not care for authorship, her steady stream of books belies that claim over the next 56 years she published more than 85 books, more than 60 of them novels with such titles as Those Difficult Years (1925), The Office Wife (1930), Babs and Mary Lou (1931), District Nurse (1932), Manhattan Nights (1937), and He Married a Doctor (1944). Cuthrell in 1920, and the next year she published her first novel, Mavis of Green Hill. But her company has a strict new policy: Any woman who marries will be immediately fired.
They are so in love that if they don’t get married, something improper is bound to happen.
Soon, Lynn also loves Tom, the young clerk down the hall. Faith Baldwin attended private academies and finishing schools, and in 1914-16 she lived in Dresden, Germany. Lynn is an ambitious young woman who loves her job in the gleaming new Manhattan skyscraper.
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