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[...] writing course and immediately got several stories published and a contract for his first novel, so he decided to become a writer instead. After he published his first novel, A Pale [...]

[...] thought it was unmarketable and rejected it, but asked if he had anything else. He rewrote his first novel, based on the life of his grandfather, a Mississippi planter who gambled away his fortune. It [...]

[...] , and was a lifelong opponent of capital punishment. During the war, he published his first novel, The Stranger (1942), which explored themes of alienation and paralleled Camus’ place as [...]

[...] novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky (books by this author), born in Moscow (1821). He published his first novel — a short novel in letters called Poor Folk —in 1846, and was hailed as a great new voice of [...]

[...] of Hersey’s voluminous essay and this note from The Editors: "TO OUR READERS. The New Yorker this week devotes its entire editorial space to an article on the almost complete obliteration [...]

[...] first poems, she had published her work in more than 40 magazines, including Harper’s and The New Yorker. For the rest of her life, she was in and out of mental institutions, on and off psychiatric [...]

[...] . The resulting book, In Cold Blood (1965), was first published as a four-part serial in The New Yorker, and it became a landmark in the true crime genre. It also became an early example of what came [...]

[...] reviews from academic historians, but they were best-sellers, and the 10th volume won the Pulitzer Prize in 1968. The complete set was offered for sale by the Book of the Month Club for $29.95, or [...]

[...] Machine was one of the first nontechnical books about the computer industry, and it won the Pulitzer Prize when it came out in 1981. Kidder went on to write a series of books about apparently ordinary [...]

[...] Partway Back (1960) and All My Pretty Ones (1962). Her collection Live or Die (1966) won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. She committed suicide in 1974. http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php? [...]