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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON

Rappahannock N**w* Staff V rit#*r

For years, William Hoffer’s agent tried to convince him to abandon his home in the hills and head for New York, arguing that struggling young writers had to be where the action is in order to crack the big time publishing world.

Hoffer ignored his agent's advice and stayed in the little green A-frame home one mountain over from Chester Gap. There, miles and life styles away from the heart of the literary scene, he finished a potential non-fiction best seller that has been picked as both a main selection for the Literary Guild and an alternate for Book-of-theMonth Club.

“I think my career went better because I didn’t follow the parade of writers to New

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