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Who was the real author of "The Profit" by Khelog Albran?

( http://rsidd.online.fr/profit/index.html )

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    It was originally printed in a book by publishers Price/Stern/Sloan in 1973, as by Albran with two "collaborators", Martin A. Cohen and Sheldon Shacket, and in the copyright entry for the book Albran is listed as a pseudonym of those two men.

    Indeed, the page you found it on includes the original dedication from the book, which states "The Author is deeply indebted to Martin A. Cohen and Sheldon Shacket for conceiving this book, writing it and drawing the pictures.".

    Sheldon Shacket appears to have only ever written one other book, "The Complete Book of Electric Cars". There are umpteen Martin A. Cohens on the web; I have no idea if this is the Jewish historian, the lawyer, the doctor...

    PSS was and is a publisher of comedy books -- they are responsible for the "Mad Libs", for instance. Price and Stern were writers for the old Steve Allen TV show along with a million other TV and cartoon projects (including Mad Magazine).

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    Kahlil Gibran wrote "The Profit". I don't know who this Khelog Albran is. From the list of his chapters it looks to be a similar, but different book from Kahlil Gibran's.
    Or maybe I'm confused and comparing apples and oranges to tyranasaurous rexes.

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