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great books we all love would not have been published, except for
the courage and determination of individual authors who would not
take "no" for an answer. We at iFOGO celebrate them, and
present established, and self-published authors. ______ Famous Self Published Authors (Courtesy, Dan Poynter on iFOGO.com) Remembrance of things Past, by Marcel Proust Ulysses, by James Joyce The Adventures of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter A Time to Kill, by John Grisham The Wealthy Barber, by David Chilton The Bridges of Madison County What Color is Your Parachute In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. (and his student E. B. White) The Joy of Cooking When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple Life’s Little Instruction Book Robert’s Rules of Order OTHER FAMOUS AUTHORS WHO SELF-PUBLISHED Stephen King John Grisham Deepak Chopra Gertrude Stein Zane Grey Upton Sinclair Carl Sandburg Ezra Pound Mark Twain Edgar Rice Burroughs Stephen Crane Bernard Shaw Anais Nin Thomas Paine Virginia Wolff e.e. Cummings Edgar Allen Poe Rudyard Kipling Henry David Thoreau Benjamin Franklin Walt Whitman Alexandre Dumas William E.B. DuBois 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 and more |
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