Talk:The Bridges at Toko-ri (novel)

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I've only just created this page. The existing page was for the film adaptation of a novel. The novel deserved it's own page.

Publication history[edit]

I was just reading an article in Life magazine from June 29, 1953 (available in full view at Google books) and it says (on page 103) this:

"James A. Michener, Pulitzer prize winning author of Tales of the South Pacific, has written a new novel for Life. It is called The Bridges at Toko-ri and will appear in its entirety in next week's issue.

"Although Life has been the original publisher of a complete novel before (Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea), this is the first time the magazine has commissioned a major work of fiction especially for it. When Mr. Michener walked in to see Life's editors last March and told them about the story he wanted to write, they told him to go ahead."

There is more (mostly a brief plot summary) which an interested editor can check out. But it seems there is information there that would add to the information here on the publication history of the book.99.192.94.187 (talk) 00:43, 28 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]