He also divorced his wife of 36 years, with whom he had a daughter, Rachel Waller, and found a new partner in Linda Bow, who worked on the property as a landscaper. Thousands signed in at the Chamber of Commerce office, where they could use restrooms marked “Roberts” and “Francescas.”Īfter the novel’s success, Waller left Iowa, where he had grown up, and moved to a ranch in Alpine, Texas, 50 miles from the nearest town. Around the town of Winterset, population 4,200 (also the birthplace of John Wayne), tourists arrived by the busloads, buying “Bridges” T-shirts, perfume and postcards. The novel prompted couples across the world to marry on Madison County’s covered bridges. If you don’t like the book and can say why, I am willing to listen. “I really do have a small ego,” Waller told the New York Times in 2002. “Bridges” turned the unknown writer into a multimillionaire and made Madison County, Iowa, an international tourist attraction. Readers, however, bought more than 12 million copies in 40 languages.
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