southpaw@altavista.net
Fri, 12 Nov 1999 15:35:34 -0400
I thought this was interesting; unlike many HB writers who
passed on, Higgins clearly was not forgotten.
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http://www.boston.com:80/dailyglobe2/315/metro/Hundreds_gather_to_mourn
_a_legendary_Boston_writerP.shtml>
> Hundreds gather to mourn a legendary Boston
writer
> By Jordana Hart
> The Boston Globe
> 11/11/99
>
> MILTON - George V. Higgins was born in
Rockland
> almost 60 years ago. One day in 1972, jubilant
that
> his first novel "The Friends of Eddie Coyle"
had
> been accepted for publication, Higgins drove to
the
> Rockland dump, heaved his 14 previously
rejected
> typescripts into the pit, and watched a
bulldozer
> bury them all.
>
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