Baileys Prize winner Eimear McBride isn't the only successful author to have faced rejection
Animal Farm, Moby Dick and Lolita: all rejected
The Telegraph - 05 June 2014
After nine years of rejection from publishers, Eimear McBride's debut, A Girl is a Half Formed Thing, won the 2014 Bailey's Prize on Wednesday. But the Irish writer won't be the last to laugh in the face of those publishing houses who won't take a punt on an experimental or challenging novel.
From Gertude Stein and William Burroughs to recent rags-to-riches writers such as JK Rowling and Cassandra Clare, there have been brutal rejection letters to accompany most bestselling novels. Here are extracts from some of them:
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