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...Mary Robison, critically acclaimed author and Briggs Copeland Assistant Professor in English, met her present spouse, James, when he "offered me a lift on his motorcycle between states somewhere, on the way to Motor City...
...pretty typical incident in Robison's life, her early years being spent "all over the map, getting married, having children, being a hobo, a socialist..." Robison even looks the part of a carefree bohemian. "I love the way she looks like what you would imagine in a stereotypical writer: she smokes nonstop, she drinks lots of black cofee, has wild hair and funky bracelets," says Elizabeth L. Buckley '87, a first-time student in Robison's creative writing course...
Writing, however, was one art that "did not seem to me to be plausible," Robison says. "I had wanted to be other things, but I am at an age where I'm narrowing my focus. I am probably not going to be a rock star or a nuclear physicist...
...almost 10 years after getting her first short story in The New Yorker, the tables have turned, and it is Robison who is teaching young people the craft of writing fiction in English...
...Yours," in An Amateur's Guide To The Night, Mary Robison. A wise, poignant pumpkin-carving story from Harvard's own writer-in-residence. Apart from letting you cool down after the macabre O'Connor, "Yours" reveals a more human side to the Halloween season. And Robison finds a beautiful metaphor in the dying flame at the heart of every jack-o'-lantern...