This is not just a book to read because it is good, it is a book to have because of the story that is behind it. The guy who wrote this, stuck it in his desk drawer and then killed himself. Ten years later, his mother finds it and takes it to a publisher. That year it won the Pulitzer prize for literature. he was about 35 yrs. old and a college professor of literature. His first book he wrote when he was only 15 yrs. old, titled the Neon Bible.





