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Article: Mississippi's writer extraordinaire. (Looking Back).(Prentiss Ingraham)
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- Mississippi Magazine
- Article date:
- May 1, 2002
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Prentiss Ingraham in his prime was one of the most remarkable men in America. Born in Adams County near Natchez on December 28, 1843, he rose to literary acclaim surpassed by only two other writers in the history of the world. During his thirty-plus year career as a fiction author he wrote, and had published, over nine hundred books. Of this almost unbelievable number, four hundred were novels and six hundred were novelettes. According to the Dictionary of American Biography, Ingraham wrote "the equivalent of 1,353,944 words a year, 3,708 words a day, or 154.07 words every hour of every day of thirty-four productive years." Trivia experts David Wallechinsky and Irving ...