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Originally Posted by GrannyGrump
Especially when you consider how he had often written disparagingly about clueless and simpering whimpering mothers (I am thinking of some of the juveniles here, such as "Space Cadet" and "Time for the Stars"). Must have been a whee! of a midlife crisis that turned him around...
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Or a lack of editorial control in his later years. By the time of
Stranger, he was making the current equivalent of a $200,000 USD from residual royalties. He felt he could write whatever he wanted to, thereafter.
Seriously, if you want to look at the man behind the books, read Patterson's 2 volume biography. Also read
For Us, The Living, which had no editor, and was written on spec (and didn't sell) in 1938.