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“My protagonist would be an American, that I had always knew. Once I got down to work, Honore de Balzac and Thomas Wolfe, both literary men of superhuman and creative force, and both perpetual mama’s boys who died early, would fuse and spring to hot life as the big bestseller writer from the Kentucky hill country, Arthur Youngblood Hawke.”