Best writing teacher I ever had, and the most memorable moments in class were her reading aloud tragic epiphany stories by Turgenev and Mishima.

A wonderful stage actor too - I saw his very funny and nuanced portrayal of Malvolio in Twelfth Night in Pittsburgh in the 70s.

All while writing forty pages a week… “There has ever been the record before me, and a week passed with an insufficient number of pages has been a blister to my eye, and a month so disgraced would have been a sorrow to my heart.”