Features & ReviewsWorth the EffortThe RumpusMay 26, 2011 Dick Wimmer, “who after 25 years of submissions and more than 150 rejections finally got [his] book published” in 1989, making him the self-declared “most-rejected published novelist in history,” passed away on May 18th at the age of 74. Share Tweet Share The Rumpus You May Also Like Read Interviews Love, Grief, and the Search for Postpartum Healing: A Conversation with Shayne Terry Jiordan CastleFebruary 24, 2025 Read Interviews Voice as the Sunlight of the Story: A Conversation with Robert Shapard Christine SneedFebruary 19, 2025 Read Reviews “stones will know”: On Trauma Plot: A Life by Jamie Hood Erin VachonFebruary 18, 2025 Read Poetry Reviews A Poetics of Witness: Jeddie Sophronius’s Interrogation Records Jonathan ChanFebruary 18, 2025
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