Paul Little

aka Marie de Jourlet, Leigh Franklin James, Paula Little, Paula Minton, Kenneth Harding, Sylvia Sharon.Paul Little, acclaimed as perhaps this country`s most prolific writer, produced more than 700 romantic, historic and pornographic novels published under a number of different pen names.Mr. Little, an expert in chess and fluent in French, also wrote a book,``Chessworks,`` on moves in the game and worked for many years as a professional translator from French to English. He also taught fiction in the City Colleges of Chicago. Among his other jobs before becoming a full-time writer were ad salesman, Montgomery Ward & Co. copy writer, radio announcer, music critic and food and wine writer.He was the author of such popular historical novels as the Windhaven series, under the pen name of Marie de Journlet; the Hawk and the Dove series, using the name Leigh Franklin James; and of books in the Silverbell Romance series. Paula Minton, Kenneth Harding and Sylvia Sharon also have been his pseudonyms.Mr. Little wrote only a couple of books under his own name. One of them was ``Condominium Trap,`` recently published by the University of Alabama Press.He was the author also of a plethora of sexually explicit novels.- Obituary