A fifth one: diminishing returns?

[John M. Krafft]

From:	MIAVX2::JMKRAFFT     "John M. Krafft" 21-FEB-1992 14:24:03.90
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From: erich at lighthouse.caltech.edu (Erich Schneider)
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Date: 21 Feb 92 00:35:19 GMT
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In article <10963 at ns-mx.uiowa.edu> williams at herky.cs.uiowa.edu (Kent Williams) writes:

>It is interesting to note also that when they voted GR for the
>National Book Award, there was a controversy among the judges; about
>half thought it was a masterpiece, and the other half thought it was
>completely unreadable.

Not only that, but the Pulitzer committee wanted to give GR the Pulitzer
for fiction that year, but the Pulitzer trust refused to award the
prize to such an "obscene" book (they were upset about, among other things,
the coprophagia scene). So no Pulizter for fiction was awarded that year.

Source: _The Gravity's Rainbow Companion_, author forgotten.

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