A debut novel is the first novel a novelist publishes. Debut novels are often the author's first opportunity to make an impact on the publishing industry , and thus the success or failure of a debut novel can affect the ability of the author to publish in the future. First-time novelists without a previous published reputation, such as publication in nonfiction, magazines, or literary journals , typically struggle to find a publisher.
50-529: The White Peacock is the first novel by D. H. Lawrence , published in 1911, though with 1910 on the title page. Lawrence started the novel in 1906 and then rewrote it three times. The early versions had the working title of Laetitia. Maurice Greiffenhagen 's 1891 painting "An Idyll" inspired the novel. The painting had "a profound effect" on Lawrence, who wrote: "As for Greiffenhagen's 'Idyll', it moves me almost as if I were in love myself. Under its intoxication, I have flirted madly this Christmas." The novel
100-496: A 2008 interview, but said he had "grown up". Hugh Wilson admitted in a 2015 interview that he had negative experiences working with Rudin during the making of The First Wives Club . On April 7, 2021, Rudin was accused, by numerous employees speaking to The Hollywood Reporter , of demonstrating a long-standing pattern of abusive behavior towards his employees, including physical abuse, such as throwing objects at his assistants, and in one instance breaking an assistant's hand with
150-660: A Mockingbird staged within 25 miles of any city ALLC determines to be a major metropolitan center that might eventually host the Sorkin adaptation – even though the companies had been legally granted rights by Dramatic Publishing Co. to produce the Sergel adaptation. One of the amateur companies, The Grand Theatre, estimated that the cancellation of Mockingbird would cost the theatre some $ 20,000. Rudin has been called "the most feared man in town" ( The Hollywood Reporter ), and notoriously hot-tempered. Rudin acknowledged having "a temper" in
200-498: A Mockingbird , newly adapted for the stage by Aaron Sorkin , directed by Bartlett Sher , and starring Jeff Daniels . The production opened to critical acclaim at the Shubert Theatre on December 13, 2018. During the week ending on December 23, 2018, the production grossed over $ 1.5 million, breaking the record for box office grosses for a non-musical play in a theater owned by The Shubert Organization . In March 2018, prior to
250-474: A computer monitor. In that article, he was also accused of having victims sign non-disparagement agreements and having the victims' film credits increased or retroactively decreased after quitting. On April 14, 2021, Karen Olivo announced that they would not return to Moulin Rouge! when it reopened in protest of the industry's silence on the allegations against Rudin. In an Instagram video, Olivo stated, "I want
300-412: A conflict on the date of the opening, balked at the change, adding, "You know nobody works at that pace anymore, right?" Rudin shot back, "Critics reviewed shows on Broadway this way for 100 years. You can do it for one night. Get over it." Rooney's rave review eventually ran two days later than other New York critics, on October 23. Rudin produced the first Broadway production of Harper Lee 's To Kill
350-622: A higher-level executive, with whom he would be working once again at Paramount Pictures years later. Rudin rose through the ranks at Fox and became president of production in 1986 at 28 years old. His stint at the top of Fox was short-lived, and he soon left and entered into a producing deal with Paramount. On August 1, 1992, Rudin signed a deal with TriStar Pictures but soon moved back to Paramount. Rudin's first-look deal with Paramount Pictures lasted nearly 15 years, producing pictures including The First Wives Club , The Addams Family , Clueless , Sabrina and Sleepy Hollow . After
400-726: A job as a casting director and ended up starting his own company. His newly minted firm cast numerous Broadway shows, including Annie (1977) for Mike Nichols . He also cast PBS 's Verna: USO Girl (1978), starring Sissy Spacek and William Hurt ; and the mini-series The Scarlet Letter (1979) starring Meg Foster , Kevin Conway and John Heard ; also, the films King of the Gypsies (1978), The Wanderers (1979), Simon (1980) with Alan Arkin and Resurrection (1980). In 1980, Rudin moved to Los Angeles, taking up employment at Edgar J. Scherick Associates, where he served as producer on
450-464: A kind of running argument with Calpurnia, the housekeeper, which is a much bigger role in the play I just wrote. He is in denial about his neighbors and his friends and the world around him, that it is as racist as it is, that a Maycomb County jury could possibly put Tom Robinson in jail when it's so obvious what happened here. He becomes an apologist for these people." The following month, producer Rudin countersued for breach of contract. The legal dispute
500-469: A reputation than from first-time writers. For this reason, literary communities have created awards that help acknowledge exceptional debut novels. In contemporary British and American publishing markets, most authors receive only a small monetary advance before publication of their debut novel; in the rare exceptions when a large print run and high volume of sales are anticipated, the advance can be larger. For an example of an unusually high advance: in 2013,
550-635: A theatre industry that matches my integrity." As a result of the allegations, Sutton Foster , who was slated to star alongside Hugh Jackman in Rudin's upcoming Broadway revival of The Music Man , vowed to leave the production if Rudin did not "take a seat". On April 17, 2021, the Actors' Equity Association called on Rudin to release employees from any ongoing nondisclosure agreements and for actions from employers, in order to create "truly safe and harassment-free theatrical workplaces on Broadway and beyond." Members of
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#1732901748832600-455: A throwback to an earlier practice on Broadway, Rudin demanded that all critics attend the opening night performance of his production of The Front Page , which starred Nathan Lane , John Slattery , John Goodman , Holland Taylor , and Robert Morse . (Typically, critics are invited to several performances prior to opening night, giving them ample time to file reviews.) In a public dispute, The Hollywood Reporter critic David Rooney, who had
650-652: A variety of films including I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (1981), the NBC miniseries Little Gloria... Happy at Last (1982) and the Oscar -winning documentary He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' (1983). Rudin then formed his own company, Scott Rudin Productions. His first film under that banner was Gillian Armstrong's Mrs. Soffel (1984). Not long after, Rudin placed his production shingle in dormancy and joined 20th Century-Fox as an executive producer. At Fox, he met Jonathan Dolgen ,
700-539: Is set in the Eastwood area of his youth and is narrated in the first person by a character named Cyril Beardsall. It involves themes such as the damage associated with mismatched marriages, and the border country between town and country. A misanthropic gamekeeper makes an appearance, in some ways the prototype of Mellors in Lawrence's last novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover . The book includes some notable description of nature and
750-610: The Oxford English Dictionary , the earliest attested usage of "first novel" is from 1876. However, the term is much older, with instances going back to at least 1800. The Oxford English Dictionary does not have an entry for "debut novel". The earliest usage of "debut novel" in the Google Books database is 1930 (as of 2011 ). The term appears in newspapers as early as 1922, in a review of Marjorie L.C. Pickthall 's novel The Bridge . The Google Books Ngram Viewer shows
800-721: The 2016 film adaptation of Fences . The following year, Rudin was a producer for the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon , which opened in March 2011 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre . The show won nine Tony Awards including Best Musical and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album. The production has played more than 3,740 Broadway performances as of March 15, 2020. The show has also played in London, Australia, Europe, Asia, and on tour across
850-522: The "primitive rage against mothers" in The White Peacock better fits the ideas of the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein . She maintains that the novel has homoerotic elements, apparent in the relationship between George and Cyril, and notes that the novelist E. M. Forster saw it as having sexual implications unrecognised by Lawrence. First novel Sometimes new novelists will self-publish their debut novels, because publishing houses will not risk
900-864: The 2010s have included lower-budget, independent films. In 2017 and 2018, Rudin and studio A24 released three films about adolescence by first-time writer/directors: Greta Gerwig 's Lady Bird , Bo Burnham 's Eighth Grade and Jonah Hill 's Mid90s . In 2015, he signed a television production deal with Fox. On December 9, 2014, a major illegal breach of Sony's computer systems by "Guardians of Peace" hackers using Shamoon malware led to disclosure of many gigabytes of stolen information, including internal company documents. In subsequent news coverage SPE Co-Chair Amy Pascal and Scott Rudin were noted to have had an email exchange about Pascal's upcoming encounter with President Barack Obama that included characterizations described as racist. The two had suggested they should mention films about African-Americans upon meeting
950-492: The Best Picture prize, with Rudin accepting the award on stage. Rudin earned Primetime Emmy award nominations for Little Gloria... Happy at Last and School of Rock , and won both Primetime and Daytime Emmys for He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' . He won a Grammy award for The Book of Mormon . At the 2011 Producers Guild of America (PGA) Awards, Rudin became the only person ever to be nominated twice in one year. He
1000-465: The Bridge , Fences and Passion . He is one of twenty-one people who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT). In 2021, Rudin stepped back from his Broadway, film and streaming projects following The Hollywood Reporter allegations of abusive behavior towards his employees; Rudin's name was subsequently removed from a number of upcoming films, and Rudin's business relationship with
1050-486: The German philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche , and that its theme is "that Christianity has alienated humankind from nature and destroyed pagan wisdom". Maddox describes it as "an uneven early work obscured by Lawrence's later books", but praises it for its "beauty and power" and for being "rich in images of a nature red in tooth and claw." She argues that while Lawrence's works have been seen as Freudian,
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#17329017488321100-504: The King . In 2010, Rudin and Carole Shorenstein Hays produced the first Broadway revival of August Wilson 's Pulitzer Prize -winning play Fences , directed by Kenny Leon and starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis . Fences garnered ten Tony Award nominations and three wins, including Best Revival of a Play, Best Actor for Washington, and Best Actress for Davis. He would later produce
1150-541: The Philosopher's Stone , only receive small initial print runs. Debut novels that do well will be reprinted as sales increase due to word of mouth popularity of the novels—publishers do not often run large marketing campaigns for debut novelists. There are numerous literary prizes for debut novels often associated with genre or nationality. These prizes are in recognition of the difficulties faced by debut novelists and bring attention to deserving works and authors. Some of
1200-700: The Pickwick Club (1837), all of which lack the complexity or stylistic characteristics which audiences praise in the authors' later work. There are however some debut novels that are regarded as the author's masterpiece , for example Gustave Flaubert 's Madame Bovary , Joseph Heller 's Catch 22 , Günter Grass ' The Tin Drum and Chinua Achebe 's Things Fall Apart . Sometimes, instead of writing novels to begin their career, some authors will start with short stories , which can be easier to publish and allow authors to get started in writing fiction. According to
1250-601: The United States. Since 2011, Rudin has won Tony Awards for producing Arthur Miller 's Death of a Salesman (directed by Mike Nichols and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Andrew Garfield ), Lorraine Hansberry 's A Raisin in the Sun (starring Denzel Washington ), David Hare 's Skylight (directed by Stephen Daldry and starring Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy), Stephen Karam 's The Humans , Ivo van Hove 's staging of Arthur Miller 's A View From The Bridge , and
1300-632: The Way to the Forum , for which Nathan Lane won his first Tony Award. His subsequent productions and co-productions have included Skylight , The Goat or Who Is Sylvia? , Seven Guitars , The Ride Down Mt. Morgan , Copenhagen , Deuce , The History Boys , Beckett/Albee , Closer , The Blue Room , Doubt , Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , The Year of Magical Thinking , A Behanding in Spokane , God of Carnage , The House of Blue Leaves , and Exit
1350-582: The author gains a literary reputation. There are exceptions, however; YouTuber Zoella published her debut novel Girl Online in November 2014, and the book sold 78,109 copies in Britain in its first week. The novel saw huge sales because she already had an established audience, and publishers were willing to run a large print run. By comparison, bestselling Fifty Shades of Grey sold 14,814 copies in its first week, or later popular novels, like Harry Potter and
1400-471: The author's typical literary characteristics . Huffington Post ' s Dave Astor attributes these to two forces: first that authors are still learning their own unique style and audiences are more willing to read works from unknown authors if they resemble more conventional styles of literature. As examples, Astor points to J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit (1937), Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman (1969) and Charles Dickens' The Posthumous Papers of
1450-413: The capital needed to market books by an unknown author to the public. Most publishers purchase rights to novels, especially debut novels, through literary agents , who screen client work before sending it to publishers. These hurdles to publishing reflect both publishers' limits in resources for reviewing and publishing unknown works, and that readers typically buy more books from established authors with
1500-518: The excitement of finding authors and writers without established legacies. In the same piece for the Times , Ayana Mathis describes the debut novel as "a piece of the writer's soul in a way that subsequent books can't ever be", because the novel is necessarily a work of passion and a product of all of their life before that moment. Often an author's first novel will not be as complex stylistically or thematically as subsequent works and often will not feature
1550-403: The highly anticipated City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg captured the attention of ten publishers who started a bidding war that ended with Knopf buying the rights to the book for 2 million dollars. The book's film production rights were purchased soon after by producer Scott Rudin . For similar reasons that advances are frequently not very large—novels frequently do not sell well until
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1600-561: The impact of industrialisation on the countryside and the town. The novel is set in Nethermere (fictional name for real-life Eastwood) and is narrated by Cyril Beardsall, whose sister Laetitia (Lettie) is involved in a love triangle with two young men, George and Leslie Temple. She eventually marries Leslie, even though she feels sexually drawn to George. Spurned by Lettie, George marries the conventional Meg. Both his and Lettie's marriages end in unhappiness, as George slides into alcoholism at
1650-805: The more prestigious awards around the world include the American Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award , the French Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman , the British Guardian First Book Award , the German Aspekte-Literaturpreis and the Japanese Noma Literary Prize . The New York Times commentator Leslie Jamison described the big, and often very public, "to do" about debut novels and novelists created by these book awards, as associated with
1700-523: The novel's close. The White Peacock was published on January 19, 1911 by Duffield & Co. in the United States and a day later by Heinemann in the United Kingdom. According to the biographer Brenda Maddox , The White Peacock received generally positive reviews in The Observer , The Morning Post , and The Daily News . Maddox writes in that The White Peacock reflects the influence of
1750-460: The play's opening, the Harper Lee estate filed a lawsuit against the play's production company based on allegations that the play deviates too much from the novel. Sorkin had previously admitted that, "As far as Atticus and his virtue goes, this is a different take on Mockingbird than Harper Lee's or Horton Foote 's. He becomes Atticus Finch by the end of the play, and while he's going along, he has
1800-456: The play. In 2015, it was announced that Rudin would produce Groundhog Day , a musical adaptation of the film Groundhog Day , originally starring Bill Murray . Tim Minchin wrote the music and lyrics, and screenwriter Danny Rubin wrote the book. Rudin withdrew from the production in June 2016, citing creative differences with the production team. Groundhog Day opened on Broadway in 2017 and
1850-459: The president, such as Django Unchained , 12 Years a Slave , The Butler , and Amistad which all discuss slavery in the United States or the pre-civil rights era. In the email thread, Rudin added, "I bet he likes Kevin Hart ." Rudin later said that the e-mails were "private emails between friends and colleagues written in haste and without much thought or sensitivity." He added that he
1900-403: The production of The Hours (2002), which Rudin produced for Miramax Films after it became a studio subsidiary under Disney . Rudin later said he and Weinstein "are both control freaks. We both want to run our own shows. When I'm doing a Miramax movie, I work for him. And I don't like that feeling. I chafe under that. I especially chafe under it when I feel that I'm on a leash." His projects in
1950-575: The record-breaking revival of Hello, Dolly! starring Bette Midler . Other notable productions include Larry David 's Fish in the Dark , a hit comedy with over $ 13.5 million in advance sales at the box office, a record at the time. Rudin left the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park in February 2012 ahead of an April opening, due to a feud with writer Bruce Norris that was unrelated to
2000-496: The resignation of Paramount's chairwoman Sherry Lansing in 2004 and nearly simultaneous departure of Jonathan Dolgen (then president of the company), Rudin left the studio and set a five-year first-look pact with Disney that allowed him to make movies under their labels Touchstone Pictures , Walt Disney Pictures , Hollywood Pictures , and Miramax Films , whose founders Harvey and Bob Weinstein had departed. Previously, Harvey Weinstein and Rudin had public confrontations during
2050-459: The studio A24 was terminated. Rudin was born and raised in Baldwin , New York , on Long Island in a Jewish family. He attributes much of his interests and behavior to his upbringing. At the age of 16, he started working as an assistant to theatre producer Kermit Bloomgarden . Later, he worked for producers Robert Whitehead and Emanuel Azenberg . In lieu of attending college, Rudin took
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2100-862: The term becoming more widely used after about 1980, gaining in popularity since. Scott Rudin Scott Rudin (born July 14, 1958) is an American film, television and theatre producer. His films include the Academy Award -winning Best Picture No Country for Old Men , as well as Uncut Gems , Lady Bird , Fences , The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , The Social Network , South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut , School of Rock , Zoolander , The Truman Show , Clueless , The Addams Family , and eight Wes Anderson films. On Broadway , he has won 17 Tony Awards for shows such as The Book of Mormon , Hello, Dolly! , The Humans , A View from
2150-580: The theater chain. In 1994, Rudin won the Best Musical Tony Award for his production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Passion . The following year, he co-produced Kathleen Turner 's Broadway comeback, Indiscretions , and Ralph Fiennes ' New York stage debut in Hamlet . In 1996, Rudin produced the revival of the Stephen Sondheim and Larry Gelbart musical A Funny Thing Happened on
2200-407: The union have pushed for Rudin to be added to a Do Not Work list. On April 17, Rudin released a statement apologizing for "the pain my behavior caused to individuals, directly and indirectly" and said he would "step back" from active work on his Broadway productions. On April 20, he announced that he would do the same for his "film and streaming" projects. On August 13, it was reported that Rudin
2250-420: Was "profoundly and deeply sorry". Typically producing between two and five productions per year, Rudin was one of Broadway's most prolific commercial producers. His first Broadway play, David Henry Hwang 's Face Value in 1993, was produced alongside Stuart Ostrow and Jujamcyn Theaters , and it closed after eight preview performances. He started a deal with Jujamcyn to develop and produce new plays for
2300-533: Was a financial failure, closing after just five months. In 2013, after New York Times theatre reporter Patrick Healy published an interview with Colm Toibin, the author of Rudin's financially unsuccessful The Testament of Mary, Rudin ran an advertisement in the Times, saying: "Let's give a big cuddly shout-out to Pat Healy, infant provocateur and amateur journalist at The New York Times . Keep it up, Pat -- one day perhaps you'll learn something about how Broadway works, and maybe even understand it." In 2016, in
2350-544: Was adapted from the Cormac McCarthy book of the same name , and Paul Thomas Anderson 's There Will Be Blood , which was adapted from the Upton Sinclair novel, Oil! —were nominated for eight Oscars apiece at the 80th Academy Awards , including a Best Picture nod for each. The two films shared the distinction of being the most nominated movies at that year's Oscar ceremony. Ultimately, No Country for Old Men won
2400-574: Was no longer an executive producer for the upcoming third season of What We Do in the Shadows . In a September 2021 interview with Vanity Fair , Aaron Sorkin was asked about Rudin being fired from To Kill a Mockingbird , after an 18-month hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic , and said, "I think Scott got what he deserves." In 2008, two of Rudin's productions—the Coen brothers ' No Country for Old Men , which
2450-635: Was nominated (along with Dana Brunetti , Ceán Chaffin and Michael De Luca ) for producing the Facebook biographical film The Social Network and was also nominated (along with Joel and Ethan Coen ) for their remake of the classic western True Grit (2010). That same year, the PGA also awarded Rudin the David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Motion Pictures which recognizes an individual's outstanding body of work in
2500-526: Was settled by May 2018. Prior to the run of Sorkin's adaptation, another version of the play by Christopher Sergel had been available for license for over 50 years. Since the opening of Sorkin's adaptation, lawyers acting for Atticus Limited Liability Company (the company formed by Rudin for the Broadway production of To Kill a Mockingbird ) claimed worldwide exclusivity for professional stage rights to any adaptation of Lee's book. The company has moved aggressively to shut down all other productions of To Kill
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