Simplify the following text for a Grade 6 native English-speaking person.
Original: However Dostoevsky , having carried on quite bruising polemics with Katkov in early 1860s , had never published anything in its pages .
Simplified: Dostoevsky , though , had argued with Katkov in the early 1860s , and had never printed anything in the journal . Finally , Dostoevsky asked Katkov for help when others would not print his book .