The tome bomb: Behind 'Oppenheimer', a prize-winning biography 25 years in the making
Martin Sherwin struggled with writer's block while working on a full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, which he signed a $70,000 contract for in March 1980, expecting to finish it in five years. The book, co-written by Sherwin and Kai Bird, took 25 years to complete due to Sherwin's reluctance to write; research and lack of progress became a running joke in the Sherwin household.
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