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...weeks after finishing the Malcolm X manuscript, Haley wandered into the National Archives Building in Washington. The family history, told and retold by his grandma, still intrigued him. "The Kinte story, which had been passed down by many generations of slaves, was not elaborate. It was really very simple. But it was the story around which whole generations coalesced. It kept us together. It made us proud of who we were and from where we had come." Haley asked a clerk in the microfilm room for the 1870 census records of Alamance County, N.C., where his forebears had lived...
...most spectacular example of this new punctiliousness is the case of Robert Massie, author of the 1967 bestseller Nicholas and Alexandra. In 1968 Massie received a $130,000 advance from Atheneum for his next book, a biography of Peter the Great. The manuscript was due in June 1971. By then Massie was only midway through the project. When Atheneum refused his request for another $370,000 advance, the author set aside Peter, and with his wife wrote Journey, a book about their hemophiliac son, for Knopf...
...Robert Massie, he started work last week as a visiting professor of journalism at Princeton and plans to ignore his unfinished Peter manuscript until the spring. "I'm not saying I'll never finish it," he told TIME Reporter Sarah Bedell. "Peter the Great has been around 300 years." Da, tovarich, but litterateurs may recall the fate of Leo Tolstoy, who, following the success of War and Peace, plunged into a novel about the selfsame czar. Even he abandoned the project for something shorter and simpler: Anna Karenina...
...disillusioning detail an unsuspected peril in stealing a fortune: your new friends can be as larcenous as you, and as dangerous as the cops. Rees' 17-page letter was sent to San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Herb Caen, who mentioned it in an item this month and sent the manuscript...
Rosemary Rogers, a fortyish typist and mother of four from Fairfield, Calif., shipped Editor Coffey the manuscript of a 636-page romantic extravaganza called Sweet Savage Love. The first novel she had ever submitted for publication, it became the first of four swashbuckling herstoricals that have moved more than 10 million copies off the racks, made Rogers one of the world's bestselling authors, with a million-dollar annual income, and opened to hordes of escapists some wild new terrain...