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"In 1971, he was asked by Tom Congdon, an editor at the publishers Doubleday, if he had anything in mind for a book, and he pitched this as a "long story"; he produced a hundred pages, and, with a $1000 advance, he reworked it steadily, holing up to do so, during the winter, in a room above the Pennington Furnace Supply Co in Pennington, New Jersey, and, by summer, in an old turkey coop at Stonnington, Connecticut."
↑ Dowling, Stephen (2004年2月1日). “The book that spawned a monster”. BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3400291.stm 2009年1月19日閲覧。