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If at first you don’t succeed…
The Examiner takes a fascinating look at the author’s who went on to large-scale success despite initial rejections. They feature extracts from the rejection letters themselves. Here is a selective list of the books, click on the link below it to read about the topic in greater detail.
- Carrie by Stephen King
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold by John le Carré
- The Diary of Anne Frank
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels by Tony Hillerman
- Sanctuary by William Faulkner
- A Time to Kill by John Grisham
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Watership Down by Richard Adams
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
30 famous authors whose works were rejected (repeatedly, and sometimes rudely) by publishers
Source: Examiner.com
Posted: March 22nd, 2009
Author: Floresiensis
Categories: JK Rowling, Kenneth Grahame, Ursula Le Guin
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[...] JK Rowling was born in the town of Yate, South Gloucestershire in 1965. She is the most successful literary author of all time and her world-famous Harry Potter series has so far sold a staggering 400,000,000 copies worldwide and has been translated into over sixty five different languages. [...]
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