 His reputation was revitalized the next year when Walter Noble Burns's book, "The Saga of Billy the Kid", appeared as the Book-of-the-Month Club selection for December 1926, and became a bestseller.This success, and the fact that people who had actually known William Bonney were beginning to talk to reporters and write their memoirs, allowed stories of his exploits to regain a nationwide audience.Publication of "The Saga", in spite of its dubious facts and fabricated events, subsequently led to a proliferation of other books, magazines and newspaper articles, and then movies, about the life of Billy the Kid.