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Richard C. Marius, the former director of Harvard's Expository Writing program, a Reformation scholar and an acclaimed novelist, died at his home in Belmont on Friday from pancreatic cancer...
...Marius became Harvard's director of Expository Writing in 1978 and served until 1993, when he resigned to devote more time to teaching and his own writing...
Faculty and students remember Marius as a devoted teacher and "Southern gentleman," who loved writing. He retired from Harvard last year after becoming sick in order to finish his fourth novel, which is scheduled for publication next year...
...other novels, The Coming of the Rain (1969), Bound for the Promised Land (1976) and After the War (1992), portray individuals interacting with major historical events between 1850 and 1950. They are all set in Marius's native Tennessee...
Suddenly, though, weird things started happening. A line drive on the final out of the seventh by New York's Marius Russo shattered the kneecap of Fat Freddie Fitzsimmons, who had shut out the Yankees in Game Three. New York scored the deciding run via four straight singles off luckless reliever Hugh Casey in the eighth...