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A tragic tale, part 6

 

August 26, 2022



By 1970, Jesse Hill Ford was a dynamic force on the American literary scene. His novel, “The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones,” had sold well, received good reviews and been turned into a movie.

While working on the screenplay, Ford published a book of short stories and another novel. He was also at work on a novel about the Civil War, which he thought would be his best work yet.

Stirling Silliphant, his co-writer on the “Jones” movie script, predicted that within ten years Ford would win the Nobel Prize for literature.

But then everything fell apart. For one thing, Ford confessed to...



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