Kristin Hannah

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Jeffrey A Trachtenberg, She's Bestselling Book-Writing Machine. Kristin Hannah's work working as a lawyer shaped her approach to writing novels. Twenty-five books later, Bill Gates is taking notice. Wall Street Journal, May 25, 2024, at page B3 (on Saturdays, WSJ's business section is christened (renamed) as "Exchange").
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture ... -the-women-371d7670
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/u ... htsprg-tipsubsc-v1a

Quote:

" 'The Women' revolves around a young nurse who impulsively enlists in the Vietnam War and later returns home a changed woman. It is a challenging book set during an era many Americans have tried to forget. It is also, by far, her most successful novel in a [writing, not legal] career that has spanned more than three decades.

"Her editor at the time said that the American public wasn’t ready to read such a book, and advised she might not be ready to write it. 'Live more and come back at a better time,' she says the editor told her.   In 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic, Hannah thought the moment was right.

Note:
(a)
(i) WSJ offers this article for free.
(ii) I do not read fictions, and seldom read books. (For the latter category, I read only its first and last several pages. I read biology papers and Supreme court decisions.)
(iii) I have not heard of her until today.
(b) Kristin Hannah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristin_Hannah
("Hannah's best-selling work, The Nightingale, has sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide and has been published in 45 languages")

I do not know how to reconcile this with the quotation 1 is the WSJ article ("It is also, by far, her most successful novel").
(c) " 'What I took away from my father was his ability to craft a career from the life he wanted to live,' says Hannah. 'I did the same.' "

takeaway
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/takeaway
s sometimes used in "takeaway lessons" (the essence one learns from a (science) talk, say,.