Learned League mocked me yesterday.

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Learned League mocked me yesterday.

#1 Post by franktangredi » Fri Jul 23, 2021 3:42 pm

This question turned up in a One-Day Quiz:
5. Only one writer awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction has also won it in the category of Fiction. However, his winning 1,000-page "novel" has been hard to classify. A 1979 New York Times article discusses this difficulty: "In the issue of Nov. 4 The Times's best‐seller list will say, 'This is the true story of Gary Gilmore's life and death, but because the author, the publisher and the bookstores are calling it fiction, it is listed as such.'" Name the book.

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Re: Learned League mocked me yesterday.

#2 Post by BackInTex » Fri Jul 23, 2021 3:52 pm

My guess, and it is just that, would be
The Executioner's Song

It is the only book I know about Gilmore
..what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms.
~~ Thomas Jefferson

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