John McPhee was born in 1931 in Princeton, his father a sports physician at the university; he was a student there too, submitting a novel called Skimmer Burns for his senior thesis.
Clifton Fadiman, the chief editor of Simon & Schuster, invited him to submit a novel, and Mr. Bernstein sent him "Hard Times and White Collars," about the working-class despair experienced by American executives during the Depression.
In a recent (May/June 2010) Poets & Writers, Ben Percy talks about hearing from Fiona McCrae of Graywolf Press after submitting a novel; the editor wanted him to radically revise the novel, including changing the point of view and adding six different subplots.
Arguably the reason A Million Little Pieces received so many rejections when first submitted as a novel was market-based.
Twenty- five patients were submitted to a novel and controlled autobiographical procedure specially designed to measure episodic memories (i.e., unique, specific in time and space, and detailed) from their entire life span with two kinds of self- remembering experience.
The paper he submitted described a novel analytical technique that we today call the Fourier transform, and it won the competition; but the prize jury declined to publish it, criticizing the sloppiness of Fourier's reasoning.
Finally, nested PGMY09/11-GP5+/6+ PCR negative samples were submitted to a novel amplification reaction employing FAP59/64 primers [ 14], and amplimers were analyzed solely by direct sequencing.
3) A paper just published in Molecular Cell (February 5, so probably after this manuscript was submitted), proposes a novel function for DYRK1A-a secondary target of i-CDK9 with an IC50 ∼50 nM-as a Ser2- and Ser5-specific CTD kinase.
But she failed to submit a finished novel.
