Dr. Slaon talks with Baylor alumnus John Dennis Anderson about Madison Alexander Cooper, Jr. Madison Cooper was an American businessman and philanthropist from Waco, Texas, and is best remembered for his long novel Sironia, Texas (1952), which made publishing history at that time as the longest novel in English originally published in book form, in two volumes totaling 1,731 pages, containing an estimated 840,000 words.

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