GRANT

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Actually a major magazine had made Grant an offer to write stories about things he did in the war. Grant ran into Twain, and told him the news.
When US told Twain how much he was getting paid, Twain told him not to do it; Grant could easily make more writing a autobiography and getting a publishing house to put it out.
The General paid attention to Twain, and courageously wrote his memoirs while in pain from cancer.
When the book came out, it was a major success, and Julia Grant received a royalty check for over two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, restoring the Grant family's finances!
Personal Memoirs has never been out of print since it came out nearly 130 years ago.