Research Catalog

Title

House of cards : love, faith, and other social expressions : a memoir / David Ellis Dickerson.

Author

Dickerson, David Ellis.

Publication

New York : Riverhead Books, 2009.

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Details

Description

x, 369 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

Describes how the author's long-awaited dream job at Hallmark was challenged by his fundamentalist upbringing and social awkwardness that made it difficult for him to write relatable card sentiments.

Subject

• Dickerson, David Ellis
• Greeting cards > Authorship
• Humorists, American > Biography
• Greeting cards industry > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

• Autobiographies
• Biographies
• Autobiographies.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. 1. Welcome! How I Got the Job -- 1. Recruitment Day -- 2. Performance Anxiety -- 3. Interviews -- Pt. 2. Congratulations: My Months in Everyday Editorial -- 4. Orientation -- 5. Deedee -- 6. Ruby Jubilee -- 7. My People -- Pt. 3. Shared Joke: My Year in Traditional Humor -- 8. Ways of My People -- 9. How to Write a Card -- 10. After the Honeymoon -- 11. Visit -- Pt. 4. Cope: My Year and Change in Main Writing -- 12. Works Well with Others, If They're Not Touchy -- 13. How to Not Write a Serious Card -- 14. Saint John -- 15. House of Cards -- 16. Flash of Brightness -- 17. Laying Plans -- 18. Milestone Birthday -- Pt. 5. Get Better Soon: My Months Back in Humor -- 19. Brinkspersonship -- 20. Heading South.

ISBN

• 9781594488818
• 1594488819

LCCN

^^2009029059

OCLC

311778259

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library