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爱德华·博克：爱德华·博克自传·补录 364
爱德华·博克《爱德华·博克自传》· The Americanization of Edward Bok · 领导
But the traveller was not at once to enjoy his home. After only a day in Philadelphia he took a train for Indianapolis. Here lived the most thoroughly American writer of the day, in Bok's estimation: James Whitcomb Riley. An arrangement, perfected before his European visit, had secured to Bok practically exclusive rights to all the output of his Chicago friend Eugene Field, and he felt that Riley's work would admirably complement that of Field. This Bok explained to Riley, who readily fell in with the idea, and the editor returned to Philadelphia with a contract to see Riley's next dozen poems. A little later Field passed away. His last poem, "The Dream Ship," and his posthumous story "The Werewolf" appeared in The Ladies' Home Journal.
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定位：Additional excerpt 364 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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博克回到费城仅一天就赶往印第安纳波利斯，找他认为最地道的美国作家詹姆斯·惠特科姆·赖利。此前他已拿到芝加哥作家菲尔德作品的独家权，觉得赖利的作品能完美互补。他向赖利解释后，赖利欣然同意，博克带着合同返回。不久菲尔德去世，其遗作在杂志发表。核心是：主动布局，建立作者组合，并迅速执行。博克不满足于已有资源，而是亲自去谈，把互补的作家签下来。做事要有战略眼光，主动出击，而不是等机会上门。
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博克欧洲之行后回国，立即着手巩固杂志的文学作者资源。
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