from the New York Times:"The last time Barnaby Conrad saw Sinclair Lewis, three years after he served as Lewis’s personal secretary, they were at a bar in Paris and, by Mr. Conrad’s account, Lewis was thoroughly drunk. But not so drunk that he couldn’t chastise his former secretary for failing to execute a book idea that Lewis had handed him one morning at breakfast: a novel based on the conceit that John Wilkes Booth had escaped capture after assassinating Lincoln and had embarked on a secret life in the American frontier.
'You are never going to be a writer unless you write that book,' declared Lewis, the Nobel Prize-winning author of Elmer Gantry and Babbitt, as Mr. Conrad recounted the moment recently. Talk about pressure. 'It was always on my mind,' he said. '"
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