The author of _Bring the Jubilee_ was born in Madison, New Jersey, in 1903. “From the age of five,” he writes, “books have been for me the essential narcotic; as a natural consequence I detested school. When this detestation did not bring on psychosomatic illnesses to save me from the hated classrooms, I was not above malingering or playing hooky—now a lost art, but one practiced in my generation. Three weeks short of graduation I quit high school and have not been inside a school house since, except to vote. * * * * * “My first short story was written at the age of eleven and was followed by a flood of juvenilia, some little of which was unfortunately published. Happily, markets and industry died simultaneously; I wrote only desultorily until my first novel _Breathe the Air Again_ was published in 1942. This was acclaimed by Max Eastman in the American Mercury, who predicted that I would fall heir to ‘the cloak of Upton Sinclair.’ Something went wrong with the tailoring arrangements; my next novel was _Greener Than You Think_ (Sloane, 1947), a satirical fantasy.” * * * * * In addition to these two novels, Mr. Moore has published a number of short stories in such disparate media as Amazing Stories and Harper’s Bazaar, Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Reporter, Science Fiction Quarterly and Tomorrow. * * * * * He concludes: “I have been intensely interested in the history of the Civil War ever since—at the age of six—I came across a book with nice black woodcuts showing the firing on Fort Sumter and the burning of Richmond. As an amateur I’ve read hundreds of dull volumes and a score of fascinating ones on the Irrepressible Conflict. A novel based on the concept ‘what would have happened if the South had won at Gettysburg,’ was practically inevitable. _Bring the Jubilee_ is it.” _The Idea Behind_ DUAL EDITIONS An agreement unusual in American publishing has been made between FARRAR, STRAUS and YOUNG, INC., and BALLANTINE BOOKS, INC. We believe that through simultaneous publication of new titles in paperbound and trade editions it is possible to secure broader distribution of good books at a considerable saving to the reader and with substantially greater royalty income for the author. At a time when costs are consistently rising, large printings of combined editions make possible a lower price for the trade editions, while nation-wide distribution of the paperbound edition makes immediately available to a great new audience the best in current fiction and non-fiction. * * * * *