Jane Smiley - I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I a...

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I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He said he didn't. In that case, I told him, I should write a book about John Vincent Atanasoff.

Jane Smiley

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Ich wurde von einem Redakteur gebeten, über einen amerikanischen Erfinder etwas zu schreiben. Ich fragte ihn, ob er wusste, wer den Computer erfunden hatte. Er sagte, er habe es nicht getan. In diesem Fall, sagte ich ihm, sollte ich ein Buch über John Vincent Atanasoff schreiben.

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