Yellowing book jacket Doubleday, 1969, 770 pages The Honeycomb is the autobiography of Adela Rogers St. Johns. She is the daughter of a noted criminal lawyer, and often went to courtrooms during her youth. She began her career in journalism, as well as her long association with Hearst Publications, in 1913 as a reporter for the San Francisco Examiner, and she subsequently worked for William Randolph Hearst’s Los Angeles Herald, Chicago American, New York American, and International News Service. She reported on crime, politics, society, and sports news before retiring in the early 1920s. St. Johns then became noted for interviewing movie stars for Photoplay magazine. She also wrote short stories for Cosmopolitan, the Saturday Evening Post, and other magazines and finished 9 of her 13 screenplays before returning to reporting for Hearst newspapers. Writing in a distinctive, emotional style, St. Johns reported on, among other subjects, the controversial Jack Dempsey–Gene Tunney “long-count” fight in 1927, the treatment of the poor during the Great Depression, and the 1935 trial of Richard Bruno Hauptmann for kidnapping and murdering the son of Charles Lindbergh. In the mid-1930s she moved to Washington, D.C., to report on national politics. Her coverage of the assassination of Senator Huey Long in 1935, the abdication of King Edward VIII of Britain in 1936, the Democratic National Convention of 1940, and other major stories made her one of the best-known reporters of the day. She states in this autobiography, that what she did not learn at school she had “learned from pimps, professional prostitutes, gamblers, bank robbers, poets, newspapermen, jury bribers, millionaire dipsomaniacs, and murderers.”