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Dates: during 1954-1954
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Yerby started out trying to write "serious" fiction. In 1944 he worked up a Richard Wrighteous novel about a boy in the steel mills. "A perfectly terrible book," says Yerby now. "I was in love with Bessemer furnaces - an unrewarding kind of a romance." Yerby then made his decision. He quit his foundry job and went to New York. He told the Dial Press's George Joel, the only publisher who had shown a faint interest in his steel-mill epic, that he wanted to try a fast historical opus. On the strength of 27 pages turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: THE GOLDEN CORN: HE WRITES TO PLEASE | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

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