About the Author
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Thomas Whiteside was born in England in 1918 at Berwick-upon-Tweed, on the Scottish border. After working as a newspaperman in Canada, he came to this country in 1940. He is a United States citizen. After wartime service with the Office of War Information, he worked as a reporter for The New Republic, and for some years he has been a writer for The New Yorker. Mr. Whiteside is married to a French-born wife and has three children. They live in Greenwich Village. He is the author of The Relaxed Sell, published in 1954.

