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Frank N. Magill


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Dr. Frank Northen Magill (1907-1997) was a writer and editor of distinguished reference works for over forty years.

Magill also founded the Salem Press in 1949. Magill’s expertise became so recognizable in the hundreds of volumes of reference works published by Salem Press that librarians sometimes referred to the publications as “Magill books.”

Born in Smyrna, Ga., Magill earned an undergraduate degree at Georgia Tech and a master’s degree in engineering at Columbia University. He began working as an engineer, then served as a major in the Army Air Corps during World War II. While stationed in the Panama Canal Zone, Magill read widely and conceived of a book that he titled “Masterplots.” That was the first book to be published by Salem Pres
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Average rating: 4.23 · 242 ratings · 31 reviews · 473 distinct works
Masterpieces of World Philo...

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4.24 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 1961 — 11 editions
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Masterpieces of World Liter...

4.28 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1951 — 16 editions
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Masterpieces of African-Ame...

4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1992
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Critical Survey of Poetry: ...

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1984 — 9 editions
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Psychology Basics

3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions
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Masterpieces of American Li...

4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions
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Cyclopedia of Literary Char...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1963 — 2 editions
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History of Europe

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1993
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The Middle Ages (Dictionary...

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Masterplots: American Ficti...

4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1985
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