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TUOLA DEBTS AND ASSETS 307 Then one day in 1950 he read an advertisement in local paper listing the publications of the United Society for Christian Literature and he conceived the idea of sending this organization his latest story The Palm-Wine Drinkard and his Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads Town which he had written in two days.1 He spent three months enlarging the story then drafted final copy in ink and sent it off The United Society for Christian Literature replied that they did not publish novels but they would try to help Tutuola find publisher Faber and Faber received the manuscript from the Lutterworth Press on February 20 19512 and published The Palm-Wine Drinkard on May 1952 Grove Press brought out an American edition the following year and by 1955 the book was available in French Italian German and Serbo-Croatian translations.3 Thus the bored messenger became the first Nigerian author to win international recognition and acclaim writer almost by accident Tutuola must have been greatly encouraged by Faber and Fabe acceptance of The Palm-Wine Drinkard Eighty days after it appeared in print they received his second manuscript My Life in the Bush of Ghosts which they published on February 1954.4 Like The Palm-Wine Drinkard it had been composed in two days

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Nancy Mitford

Nancy Mitford, CBE (28 November 1904, London – 30 June 1973, Versailles), styled The Hon. Nancy Mitford before her marriage and The Hon. Mrs Peter Rodd thereafter, was an English novelist and biographer, one of the Bright Young People on the London social scene in the inter-war years. She was born at 1 Graham Street (now Graham Place) in Belgravia, London, the eldest daughter of Lord Redesdale and was brought up at Asthall Manor in Oxfordshire. She was the eldest of the six controversial Mitford sisters.

[close] Nancy Mitford, CBE (28 November 1904, London – 30 June 1973, Versailles), styled The Hon. Nancy Mitford before her marriage and The Hon. Mrs Peter Rodd thereafter, was an English novelist and biographer, one of the Bright Young People on the London social scene in the inter-war years. She was born at 1 Graham Street (now Graham Place) in Belgravia, London, the eldest daughter of Lord Redesdale and was brought up at Asthall Manor in Oxfordshire. She was the eldest of the six controversial Mitford sisters.

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