John Rood

Meanwhile, her first publisher, John Rood , wrote: without any hesitation, we can say that Death of a Traveling Salesman is one of the best stories that has come to our attention—and one of the...

EW tried to sell her unposed photographs of mostly rural black people to New York publishing houses with the hope that her pictures might pique the publishers' interest in her stories—they were not, however, decoyed...

Editor John Rood had accepted the short stories in March.