<Tr> <Th> Followed by </Th> <Td> The Pistol (1959) </Td> </Tr> <P> Some Came Running is a novel by James Jones, published in 1957 . This was Jones' second published novel, following his award - winning debut From Here to Eternity . It is the story of a war veteran with literary aspirations who returns in 1948 to his hometown of Parkman, Indiana, after a failed writing career . It was a thinly disguised autobiographical novel of Jones's experiences in his hometown of Robinson, Illinois immediately after returning from World War II . </P> <P> A film version starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine and Martha Hyer (filmed on location in historic Madison, Indiana) was nominated for five Academy Awards . </P> <P> Dave Hirsh is a cynical Army veteran and an occasionally published but generally unsuccessful pre-war writer, who winds up in his hometown of Parkman after being put on a bus in Chicago while intoxicated . Ginnie Moorehead, a woman of seemingly loose morals and poor education, has taken the same bus . </P>

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