Queen of the Pulps

<p> Daisy Bacon, the opinionated, autocratic and complex editor of <I>Love Story Magazine</I> from 1928 to 1947, chose the stories that would be read by hundreds of thousands of readers each week. The first weekly periodical devoted to romance fiction and the biggest-selling pulp fiction magazine in the early days of the Great Depression, <I>Love Story</I> sparked a wave of imitators that dominated newsstands for more than twenty years.</p><p> Disparaged