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The Hack

Gerald Kersh
Courier Magazine, September 1954
Later published in Men Without Bones (New York: Paperback Library, 1962)

A humorous short story that flips the Shakespeare as Bacon theory on its head when Shakespeare confesses that he served as Francis Bacon’s ghost writer.

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