![]() ![]() Some time later, a friend showed the manuscript to Jonathan Burnham, then at Talk Miramax Books he immediately offered her $70,000. When a contract arrived, she decided not to sign it. ![]() Looking over her editor’s comments, she scarcely felt more hopeful. After she received the offer, she wrote to her agent she felt she was likely to commit suicide if she had to continue working with her. It had been seventeen months since her agent had indicated she would be able to get an advance based on the first six chapters of the manuscript-which, in the absence of a contract, DeWitt had diligently been attempting to finish. in classics from Oxford, got an offer on her first novel, The Seventh Samurai. In the late nineties, Helen DeWitt, a then-unpublished writer with a Ph.D. Watch Helen DeWitt discuss The Last Samurai in our My First Time video series. ![]()
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