The Man Who Wrote the Man Who Killed Lincoln

[Rob Wick]

Interesting stuff Dave. It's a good thing these authors kept those kinds of letters, especially as we know how the books were received. If I remember correctly, the author William Styron once worked as a low-level editor/reader for McGraw-Hill. He rejected Thor Heyerdahl's book Kon-Tiki. He wrote "this is a long, solemn, tedious Pacific voyage best suited to some kind of drastic abridgement in a journal like the National Geographic." Styron was so embarrassed by his mistake that he had the character "Stingo" in Sophie's Choice make the same mistake. Stryon was fired from McGraw-Hill for throwing water balloons out the window.

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Rob