Caldwell spent nearly half a century writing this novel. She began her first version at nine and finished it at twelve. She revised it when she was twenty-two, and at twenty-six she began her third version, this time allotting more emphasis to the medical element. It was not until her visit to the Holy Land in 1956 that she seemed to acquire the spark necessary to ignite the book's success. Even so, critics deplored her heavy-handed reproduction of the.....
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