Tales of a Wayward Inn [Algonquin Hotel]

390 pp. Witty and revealing look at the famous and not-so-famous characters that populated the acclaimed Algonquin Hotel. The guest list included Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, H.L. Mencken, Orson Welles, Tallulah Bankhead, Edna Ferber, Douglas Fairbanks, the Barrymores, etc. Frontispiece portrait of author by noted artist James Montgomery Flagg (mirrored on rear jacket panel), black-and-white illustrations.