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think he started writing it earlier than that, because the draft (more than 600 pages) reached his agent Naomi Burton Stone by October 21, 1946.
In late 1946, the partly approved text of "The Seven Storey Mountain" was sent to Naomi Burton, his agent at Curtis Brown literary agency, who then forwarded it to the renowned book editor Robert Giroux at Harcourt Brace publishers. Giroux read it overnight, and the next day phoned Naomi with an offer, who accepted it on the monastery's behalf.
's "The Natural" (1952), Kerouac's "The Town and the City" (1950) and O'Connor's "Wise Blood" (1952). He also worked on Thomas Merton's autobiography, "The Seven Storey Mountain" (1948).
Soon he became adept at finding new authors, and one of his first finds was the novelist and short-story writer Jean Stafford, who in turn introduced him to her husband, Robert Lowell, who was trying to find a publisher for his second