by Rebecca Copeland | Apr 9, 2025 | Memories
“It is just too long and it will be too expensive and it will kill off the market,” Peter wrote to me about my manuscript. His tone was brutal, and so was his prediction. No writer wants to “kill off” their market. At long last Peter and I had secured a contract with... 
by Rebecca Copeland | Mar 26, 2025 | Memories
A flurry of letters followed the November 1990 meeting with Akiko Kurita, Fujie Atsuko, Peter Owen, and me. All were focused on reaching an agreement so that I could begin translating The Story of a Single Woman. Peter wanted all the rights to translations into other...
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