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Ivan Prashker is a short story author whose stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories , Gallery , Harper's , McCall's , Playboy and elsewhere.
When Prashker was an editor at Magazine Management, the publishing firm run by Martin Goodman and his son Chip Goodman, he observed conflicts between the two Goodmans. What he witnessed became the basis for a short story with an unflattering portrait of a character obviously based on Chip Goodman. When the story, "The Boss's Son," was published in Playboy (February, 1970), Prashker expected he might be fired, but that was not the case, as noted by Jon B. Cooke (Comic Book Artist #16):
Prashker also published a nonfiction book, Duty, Honor, Vietnam: Twelve Men of West Point (Arbor House, 1988). Library Journal reviewed:
Warner Books did a paperback edition in 1990, changing the title to Duty, Honor, Vietnam: Twelve Men of West Point Tell Their Stories.
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