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We have lost a
good friend and a talented writer. Bill
Shurr died on October 24t 2001. Bill helped
organize the writers group, and served as our leader. We will miss
his inspiration, his authenticity and his humor.
Bill published
several books of literary criticism and numerous essays on literary
figures. At the time of his death , he was working on several novels
and agents were working hard to place them. Despite his many
contributions, Bill will be remembered as an unpretentious guy who
loved his family and enjoyed the simple things in life.
I have
published several books of literary criticism, among them, The
Marriage of Emily Dickinson, New Poems of Emily Dickinson, The
Mystery of Iniquity (on the poetry of
Herman Melville), and Rappaccini's
Children which was subtitled American Writers in a
Calvinist World. I have also published numerous essays on literary
figures from Saint Luke to Benjamin Franklin, to Walt Whitman, to
Anne Sexton.
During six years of enjoying life in Fearrington, I have been
teaching a bit and writing a lot. So far I have finished Bill
Among the Cabbages (subtitled A Cookbook for Guys). I
am also working on several novels: The
Jesuit (which might be called "memoir of a
misspent youth"); a humorous (one fondly hopes) send-up of
academia called Murder at Southern U;
and a serious novel probing the secrets of Emily Dickinson, called
either Amherst or The
Heart Asks Pleasure First. These four books are
in the hands of agents who seem to be working hard to place them.
Most recently, I have been going back to an early interest and
trying, fictionally, to work my way inside the mind of John Calvin.
You can review some of my books on Amazon.com
You can reach me via email at: wshurr@email.unc.edu
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