Yesterday the New York Times ran an obituary for author Frank Conroy, who died this week at 69. He wrote the wonderful memoir Stop-Time that has been such an important book to generations of writers and headed up the powerful Iowa Writers Workshop. I can’t post a link to the obit because you need to log on to nytimes.com and create a user ID to read it. But it’s easily done if you’re interested.
Readers of my blog will recall that Frank Conroy indirectly touched my life a few months ago, when I met Frank McCourt (author of Angela’s Ashes) at the airport. If you haven’t read this entry and are looking for a good laugh, please copy this link into your browser. A writer frind of mine called it “excruciatingly entertaining.” High praise…
The agony and the ecstacy of meeting Frank McCourt, Oct. 29, 2004
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