Who Lost Paul Corey? Available to Purchase

Every serious reader is aware of the literary career of Herman Melville: early fame, death in obscurity in 1891, triumphant revival as a, possibly the, major American novelist in the 1920s. More recently, the serious reader learns with some shock that William Kennedy's prize winning Ironweed was turned down by thirteen publishers before finding a publisher. There is the case of John Kennedy Toole; only the fanatic persistence of his mother after his suicide found A Confederacy of Dunces first a publisher and then the Pulitzer Prize. There are a multitude of similar stories.