During those years, she claimed, she received more than a thousand rejection slips for short stories.
In 1935, after fourteen rejections and fourteen complete revisions, Old Jules, the biography of her father, won the Atlantic Nonfiction Prize of $5,000. Sandoz's life from then on was dedicated to writing and research. In 1940 Sandoz moved from Lincoln to Denver, ostensibly because of Western research material there, but perhaps also because the atmosphere in Lincoln had become so hostile since the 1939 publication of her novel Capital City, which depicts the political machinations in a midwestern state capital. Although Sandoz denied that she used Nebraska's capital as the prototype, Lincoln residents refused to believe her.
In 1943, after the 1942 publication of Crazy Horse, Sandoz moved once more, to Greenwich Village in New York City. She wanted to work in the great Western research collections in the East, and she also admitted that geographical space between eastern publishers and a western writer made for too many difficulties. She always claimed to hate New York and often returned to the West, sometimes for months at a time, for lectures, speaking engagements, and research.
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