![]() ![]() Perhaps his most important work, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1971, is The Rising Sun. Dirigibles were also the subject of his first full published book, entitled Ships in the Sky and published in 1957. At one point he managed to publish an article on dirigibles in 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 successfully completing his first sale, a short story he sold to The American Magazine in 1954 for $165. In 1961, Toland said 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 his college years, he travelled with hobos and wrote several plays with hobos as central characters, none of which achieved the stage. His original goal was to become a playwright. He was a graduate of Williams College, and he also attended the Yale School of Drama for a time. He is best known for his bestselling biography of Adolf Hitler and for his Pulitzer Prize-winning World War II history of Japan, The Rising Sun. ![]() ![]() John Willard Toland (J– January 4, 2004) was an American author and historian. ![]()
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