According to legend, [Spillane] wrote his first novel I, the Jury (1947) in nine days, in order to get $1,000 for a piece of land. Once, he told the house painters, he had been taking a manuscript to the publisher and lost it. That must have been awful, said the painters. “No big deal,” said Spillane, “I just typed it out again.”—from J. Madison Davis's essay on Spillane, "His 'Customers' Were the Jury," in World Literature Today.
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