Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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After Burdick had joined him for the completion of final details on the original Ugly American, "We both realized, at exactly the same time, that readers instinctively believe fiction more than non-fiction."
The other point made in Spare Time Article Writing--that most full-time authors started with incidental, part-time writing--is equally well illustrated in Lederer's own work, which he began on a rather relaxed basis early in his 28-year career in the Navy. The first full-length...
"If first met Bud (Burdick)," Lederer explains, "when we were both fellow students at the Bread-loaf writers' conference, the summer session of Middlebury College. Then I went out to the Pacific with the Navy, and he won a Rhodes Scholarship. We met again 10 years later, just after he...
The two came up with an interesting solution to the problem of co-authorship. They "wrote the book by mail."
Burdick was living at the University of California, and the Navy had stationed Lederer in Honolulu, where he still lives. After both had done a considerable amount of independent research and formed definite ideas on the content of the proposed book, Lederer flew to California for a weekend. While there...