Alexander Solzhenitsyn asked Olga Carlisle to see to the publication of his novel "The First Circle" in the West. This had to be done in great secrecy so she gathered a publisher (from Harper & Row), a lawyer and a translator to work on it together. But Solzheniysyn later repudiated them and their work, and later claimed that they had delayed the publication of "The Gulag Archipelago", which resulted in his expulsion from the USSR.