![]() Based on original and extensive interviews with high-ranking Japanese officials who survived the war, the book chronicles the Empire of Japan from the military rebellion of February 1936 to the end of World War II. His most important work may be The Rising Sun (Random House, 1970), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1971. Dirigibles were the subject of his first full-length published book, Ships in the Sky (1957). At one point he managed to get an article on dirigibles into LOOK magazine it proved extremely popular and led to his career as a historian. He claimed to have written six complete novels, 26 plays, and a hundred short stories before completing his first sale, a short story for which The American Magazine paid $165 in 1954. He recalled in 1961 that in his early years as a writer he had been "about as big a failure as a man can be". In the summers between college years, he traveled with hobos and wrote several plays with hobos as central characters, none of which were performed. ![]() His original goal was to become a playwright. ![]() He graduated from Williams College and attended the Yale School of Drama for a time. ![]() ![]() Toland was born in 1912 in La Crosse, Wisconsin. ![]()
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