"ERIK DORN" is the epoch making novel that introduced to the American Public one of the most original and forceful of its contemporary writers. Working in obscurity before this, known to most as a brilliant newspaper man and only to a few as a creative writer of high note, "Erik Dorn" brought him at once to a leading position in American literature. It introduced a new facet into realism, the truths he reveals of contemporary life are forced home by exquisite irony, and in his work is recaptured the sardonic spirit of one of the greatest ages of English literature—of the age of Swift, Sterne and Fielding. To this Ben Hecht adds an unmatched brilliance of writing, so that aside from the interest of story and characters it is stimulating and a constant fascination to follow the sheer wizardry of his words.

Burton Rascoe says: "He has, I think, more talent, more intelligence, more experience, more assurance than any member of the post-war generation of American writers."