pulpeteer

English

Noun

pulpeteer (plural pulpeteers)

1. One who writes pulp magazines or novels.
   • 1935, Southwest Review, volumes 10-21, page 84:

     This is just as true of the Nobel prize winners as it is of the rambling pulpeteers. It is noteworthy that few writers choose to live in the bosom of their dear public.

   • 1983, Don Graham, The Texas Literary Tradition: Fiction, Folklore, History, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin, →OCLC, page 92:

     An old pulpeteer friend of mine, the late Stephen Payne of Denver, once said that in the classic western the heroine is often chased, but always chaste.

   • 2007, Barry N. Maizberg, Breakfast in the Ruins: Science Fiction in the Last Millennium, page 26:

     Western and romance writers, adventure and sports pulpeteers, also worked for a half cent to two cents a word and knew that when the magazines went off sale their work would never be seen by a nonrelative or nonlover again.