The Sojourner

Rawlings had begun work on this, her fifth full-length novel, in 1946, when Maxwell Perkins was still alive, but it was not till after his death in 1948 that she resumed work on it in earnest, working with another Scribner’s editor, the poet John Hall Wheelock. She also consulted her long-time agent, Carl Brandt, and a friend Norman Berg, an editor with the rival firm of Macmillan. The book was finally published on January 5, 1953.