Short Story Writers - Take Note and Weep

 I am reading the memoir of Fanny Hurst, a popular novelist and short story writer who was published in many magazines from the twenties to the fifties. She writes: “ At that time, (1920’s) The Post was paying me twelve hundred dollars for a short story, The Metropolitan fourteen hundred, and Ray Long (Cosmopolitan Magazine) topped them both, advancing in due time to five thousand and still later, on and on.” (multiply by five to get approximate value today).

Fanny Hurst