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By the time she won the Atlantic-Little, Brown Award for Jalna in 1927, de la Roche had been a published writer for more than twenty years, having forged personal as well as professional relationships with such publishing figures as Ellery Sedgwick, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, and Hugh Eayrs, president of Macmillan of Canada. Nevertheless, the award catalyzed de la Roche’s transformation from a minor player in English-Canadian letters to a best-selling author of international repute, changing the nature of her relationships with her editors and publishers in the process.