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 Writing as "Don Holliday," Hal Dresner was one of the original "Happy Pornographers," a group of about a half-dozen young freelance writers based in New York and contributing regularly to the output of Greenleaf, Midwood and some other sleaze publishing houses. According to Earl Kemp, Editor in Chief at Greenleaf during the 1960s, these fellows shared not only their agent, Scott Meredith, but great humor, and a love for weekly poker games, which were sometimes the actual site of the writing of sleaze book or two. While the identites of the writers were not fixed, and membership in the club was not an exclusive affair, the writers involved seem to have been Lawrence Block, Donald Westlake, Hal Dresner, and ...? A moving story Kemp has related is that when one of their flock met an untimely demise, the others banded together to write and submit one last sleaze novel under his pen-name. : But back to "Holliday," Hal Dresner's writing originally appeared under the pseudonym Don Holliday, but as he drifted into other fields of endeavour and readers clamored for more from "Don Holliday," it became a Greenleaf "house name," for a variety of different writers' work. Some of the other writers associated with "Don Holliday" were David Case, William Koons, Arthur Plotnik, and in the mid-to-late 60s, "Don Holliday" became a gay novelist as the inimitable Victor J. Banis turned in the rollicking and well-regarded MAN FROM CAMP series -- and it was attributed to "Don Holliday." The original "Don Holliday," Hal Dresner, wrote a delightful ode to his sleaze-writing days which I highly recommend: THE MAN WHO WROTE THE DIRTY BOOKS (see Hal Dresner). New titles will be added as they become available. |
SIN HOTELDon Holliday A Nightstand Book NB 1518 (1959). GOOD $6/SOLD |
LUST MASTERDon Holliday A Midnight Reader MR 437 (1962). NEAR FINE $20 |
Don Holliday 25 (1959) FINE MINUS $40/SOLD |
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