Original sentence: "William March, who died of a heart attack on May 15 at the age of 60 in his house in the Vieux Carre in New Orleans, was an artist of the most intense perception and the least bravura, and he had been entirely out of the main stream of American literature for the last three decades or so.After March's death, famed New York Times critic Gilbert Millstein wrote of The Bad Seed and March's lasting impact:.He was...a talent of almost major proportions, almost invariably received with favor by reviewers but taken up neither by the avant-garde nor by the book clubs... The Bad Seed was his last novel and possibly his best one... March's last novel was a true artistic achievement.The Bad Seed went on to sell over a million copies, was nominated for the 1955 National Book Award, was adapted into a successful and long-running Broadway play by Maxwell Anderson, and an Academy Award nominated film directed by Mervyn Leroy
Edited sentence: It went on to sell over a million copies, was nominated for the 1955 National Book Award, was adapted into a successful and long-running Broadway play by Maxwell Anderson, and an Academy Award nominated film directed by Mervyn Leroy