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''A Night to Remember'' is a 1955 non-fiction book by Walter Lord about the sinking of the RMS ''Titanic'' on 15 April 1912. The book was hugely successful, and is still considered a definitive resource about the ''Titanic''. Lord interviewed many survivors of the disaster as well as drawing on books, memoirs and articles that they had written. He authored a follow-up book, ''The Night Lives On'', in 1986 following renewed interest in the story after the wreck of ''Titanic'' was found. The film ''A Night to Remember'', based on the book and with advice from Lord, was released in 1958. ==Publication history== Lord traveled on the RMS ''Olympic'', ''Titanic''s sister ship, when he was a boy and the experience gave him a lifelong fascination with the lost liner. As he later put it, he spent his time on the ''Olympic'' "prowling around" and trying to imagine "such a huge thing" sinking. He started reading about and drawing ''Titanic'' at the age of ten and spent many years collecting ''Titanic'' memorabilia, causing people to "take note of this oddity." He majored in history at Princeton University and graduated from Yale Law School before joining the New York-based advertising agency J. Walter Thompson. Writing in his spare time, he interviewed 63 survivors of the disaster. ''A Night to Remember'' was only Lord's second book but was a huge success, thanks in no small part to the aggressive advertising campaign carried out by R & W Holt following its launch in November 1955. The book also undoubtedly benefited from the popularity of the 1953 film ''Titanic'' and other coverage of the disaster that was published around the same time. Within two months of its publication, the book had sold 60,000 copies and remained listed as a best-seller for six months. The ''Ladies' Home Journal'' and ''Reader's Digest'' both published condensed versions and it was selected in June 1956 by the Book of the Month Club. The first paperback edition was published by Bantam Books in October 1956. Since then the book has never been out of print and has been translated into over a dozen languages. Its success enabled Lord to leave the world of advertising and become a full-time writer. After the discovery of the wreck of the ''Titanic'' in 1985 sparked a new wave of public interest in the disaster he wrote a follow-up book, ''The Night Lives On'' (1986). Daniel Allen Butler comments that "although it was of immense interest to ''Titanic'' buffs the world over, it lacked the spark of the original," which by 1998 had reached its fiftieth printing. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A Night to Remember (book)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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