But he continued to write and his novels, poems and essays and in his later years he was an outspoken critic of the Nigerian government.

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C. turned him down, a decision he likely questioned during the Great Depression, when the magazine nearly failed and his livelihood was dependent on the newspaper column, which he continued to write through World War II.

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He continued to write into the 2000s.

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He continued to write novels, often based on his own wartime experiences throughout his life - perhaps most poignantly in his first book A Crowd is not Company, which took its lead from his experience as a German prisoner of war during World War II.

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And yet he has continued to write, producing six more novels, two volumes of essays on wine and a bevy of journalism.

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After he retired from Gannett, Neuharth continued to write "Plain Talk, " a weekly column for USA Today.

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