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...Columbia University, wrote prolifically, edited (1952) the scholarly, encyclopedic Forms and Functions of Twen tieth-Century Architecture, capped his career by winning a Pulitzer Prize (1956) for his biography of Benjamin Latrobe, the U.S.'s first professional architect; of a heart attack; in Beaufort, S.C. Architect Hamlin delivered Wrighteous judgments, called Los Angeles ("very bad Spanish architecture") the ugliest U.S. city, summed up New York: "One vast slum with oases ... for the wealthy...
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...
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