 After concluding the "Biography" in 1932, Cabell shortened his professional name to "Branch Cabell".The truncated name was used for all his new, "post-"Biography"" publications until the printing of "There Were Two Pirates" (1946).Though Cabell is best known as a fantasist, the plots and characters of his first few novels, "The Eagle's Shadow" (1904), "The Cords of Vanity" (1909), and "The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck" (1915) (later all adapted for inclusion into the "Biography"), do not wander out of the everyday society of Virginia's beleaguered gentry.