Posting from Associated Press, forbes.com reports that Ralph Vicinanza died of a brain aneurysm Saturday night in Bronxville. Stephen King was one of his clients.
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The article includes this interesting section about the Green Mile, in which King credits Vicinaza with the idea of a serial novel. I loved the idea, since it was exactly what Charles Dickens had done. And I wish King would do it again!
.King would credit Vicinanza with the idea for serializing "The Green Mile," his 1996 novel about a prison supervisor and death row inmate during the Great Depression. In the book's introduction, King wrote that he was having a difficult time because he had other projects going on and knew little about the story's setting. King knew he needed to do research but worried that research "might kill the fragile sense of wonder" he had developed.
.So the author "pressed on, stacking words and hoping for a kindling, an epiphany, any sort of garden-variety miracle."
."The miracle came in a fax from Ralph Vicinanza, my foreign rights agent, who had been talking with a British publisher about the serial-novel form Charles Dickens had employed a century ago," King wrote. "Ralph asked - in the dismissive way of one who doesn't expect the idea to come to anything - if I might be interested in trying my hand at the form. Man, I leaped at it."
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