Frontispiece of a book of poems by Salasin, published in 1988 In January 1969, about 400 students at my alma mater occupied the admin...

North Michigan Avenue  ( Illustration from Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1916 ) Mme. Marguerite always said that she arri...

This is the house where I grew up; sketch from a 1920s architectural journal During the 1970s, A Separate Peace by John Knowles beca...

PLEASE NOTE: DISCOVERY PUBLISHERS, WHICH IS AFFILIATED WITH THE THEOSOPHICAL MOVEMENT, HAS STOLEN MY WORK, BELOW, AND POSTED IT ON ITS OWN W...

Sky over Kansas, 9/11 A clear blue sky arched over Kansas on the morning of September 11, 2001. I know that, can still see it, because...

James D. Corrothers, around 1910 In 1898  . . .  “a sunburst fell upon my being. ” James D. Corrothers later recalled the moment when...

Lillian Gish, 1919 Portrait by Hamilton King  One summer during the mid-1970s, I had a job working for a literary publicist who was a...