Family Affairs

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Penguin Books, 1994 - Fiction - 180 pages

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Contents

SOMETHING MISSING
3
COMPLETED WORK
17
THE PLUMBER
29
Copyright

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About the author (1994)

John Clarke L'Heureux was born in South Hadley, Massachusetts on October 26, 1934. He received a bachelor's degree from Weston College in 1959 and a master's degree in theology from Boston College in 1963. He attended the Woodstock College in Maryland, where he was ordained into the priesthood in 1966. He received a second master's degree in English from Harvard University in 1968. He became a staff editor at The Atlantic and remained a contributing editor there for the next 11 years. He decided to leave the priesthood and was laicized in 1971. He held teaching jobs at Boston College High School, Georgetown University, Tufts University and Harvard University before joining the faculty of Stanford University in 1973. He was a professor of English there for 36 years. He spent more than 12 years as director of the creative writing program. He received the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1981 and in 1998. He wrote more than 20 books and numerous short stories and poems. His books included Picnic in Babylon: A Jesuit Priest's Journal, 1963-67; Tight White Collar; A Woman Run Mad; An Honorable Profession; The Shrine at Altamira; and The Medici Boy. Many of his short stories appeared in The Atlantic, Esquire, and The New Yorker. He died from complications of Parkinson's disease on April 22, 2019 at the age of 84.

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