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from Simon and Schuster to Knopf, Bob Crighton will come back with them and will now be published by us under the Knopf label. So everybody is happy again.

They probably thought that they were doing you a favor too.

They may have been right, feeling that people would be angry about his last book and might not give the new one the push it deserved. Of course he had never done a novel before. Nobody knew what was coming.

In June of 1960, we published our first William Styron book, Set This House on Fire. Styron was another great addition to the Random House list and one of our proudest possessions today.

Well, that was a first novel.

No.

What was the one that he did before that?

Lie Down in Darkness. That was done by Bobbs-Merrill. You see, Styron is one of the people brought over by Hiram Haydn.

Set This House on Fire did not get the same reception that Lie Down in Darkness did. It was a faulty, but