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  • Barbara
    Jul 24 11:20 AM 2007
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    BOOKS/AUTHORS THAT WERE REJECTED BY PUBLISHERS

    Pearl S. Buck - The Good Earth - 14 times

    Norman Mailer - The Naked and the Dead - 12 times

    Patrick Dennis- Auntie Mame - 15 times

    George Orwell - Animal Farm

    Richard Bach - Jonathan Livingston Seagull - 20 times

    Joseph Heller - Catch-22 - 22 times (!)

    Mary Higgins Clark - first short story - 40 times

    Alex Haley - before Roots - 200 rejections

    Robert Persig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - 121 times

    John Grisham - A Time to Kill - 15 publishers and 30 agents (he ended up publishing it himself)

    Chicken Soup for the Soul - 33 times

    Dr. Seuss - 24 times

    Louis L'Amour - 200 rejections

    Jack London - 600 before his first story

    John Creasy - 774 rejections before selling his first story. He went on to write 564 books, using fourteen names.

    Jerzy Kosinski - 13 agents and 14 publishers rejected his best-selling novel when he submitted it under a different name, including Random House, which had originally published it.

    Diary of Anne Frank

    FROM http://www.simonteakettle.com/famousauthors.htm

  • sullivanthepoet
    July 25, 2007 ↑
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    Now you KNOW publishers don't have a (edited by admin to remove profanity) clue! That ought to make us all feel a whole lot better...

  • Daniela Violin
    August 24 ↑
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    Jerzy Kosinski should have stayed away from publishing... and I don't know most of the others

    A time to kill wasn't bad, animal farm was good
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