World's Most-Rejected Novelist Dick Wimmer Dies at 74
Agoura Hills writer Dick Wimmer, whose debut novel Irish Wine was rejected 162 times over a span of two decades before finally being published in 1989, died last week of heart problems. He was 74. The LA Times ran a nice obit of Wimmer, whose book was widely praised across America once it finally made it to print–but not before his publishing struggles made the Guiness Book of World Records.
From the Times:
At the time, his closest official competition was Steven Goldberg’s “The Inevitability of Patriarchy,” which sold after 69 rejections, the Guinness Book of World Records told The Times in 1989.
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