The Boys in the Back Room
work by Wilson
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The Boys in the Back Room is a 1941 work by American critic and essayist Edmund Wilson. The book is a discussion of new American novelists, including John Steinbeck and James M. Cain.1
The term "backroom boy" is slang, chiefly British, referring to someone engaged in scientific research, especially secret research, or an expert adviser.2
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