{"value"=>"<p>The focus of this series is the correspondence of rejected authors by Knopf, Inc. to the author or author's agent. There is also incoming correspondence from the author or author's agent that occasionally includes outlines of proposed books. Most of the rejected authors resided in the United States and to a lesser extend abroad. In some cases, the author was rejected multiple times over a span of years. Noted rejected correspondents include Babette Deutch; Clare Booth Luce; Charles Neider of <em render=\"italic\">The New Yorker</em> and Civil War historian Shelby Foote. Foote's first attempt at publishing <em render=\"italic\">Tournament</em> (1940) was rejected by Knopf. This book would be published nine years later by New York Dial Press in 1949.</p>"}