Contents

 

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Daddy

Lewis Grizzard / Robert Drake / Patrick Hemingway / James C. Hefley / Jim Sanderson / Harry Crews / Theodore Roethke / Lewis Thomas / Edmund Gosse / Christopher Hallowell / Joseph

Mastrongelo / Jerry Smith

2. Dad

Richard E. Lapchick / Peter Clark / Gary Allen Sledge / Jimmy Carter / Joe David Bellamy / Robert Mezey / Irving Wexler / James P. Comer / Ralph Schoenstein / Lance Morrow

3. My Old Man

Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr. / Craig Donegan / Frederick Exley / Pete Hamill / Samuel Osherson / Robert Hayden / Nicholas Gage / Edward Serotta / Ivan Doig / Mike Harden / Paul Hemphill

4. Mixed Feelings

John Cheever / Alfred Lubrano / Anthony Walton / Stanley Elkin / Edward Field / Bob Greene / Steve Marcus / Ralph Holcomb /

John Holveck / Michael Blumenthal / Michel Marriott

5. Reunion

Lee Thomas / Lawrence Wright / Dean Pitchford / Bill Moyers /

Pat Jordan / Ronald Forsythe / Jim Gallagher / Frederick

Manning / John Ed Bradley / George Eyre Masters

6. Requiem

Joel Grey / Ronald Koertge / David Wojahn / Philip B.

Kunhardt, Jr. / David Plante / Anatole Broyard / Robert Bly /

Alastair Reid / James Dickey / Robert Alan Aurthur / Lewis

Grizzard / James A. Cunningham / Andrew H. Malcolm / Eric

Lax / Burt Prelutsky

7. Remembering

Rich Cowles / Steve LaRue / David S. Powell / Raymond Carver /

Christopher Hallowell / Paul Wilkes / Clark Blaise / Brock

Brower / Paul Zweig / David Ignatow

8. Epilogue: Clyde Clayton King 

Larry L. King

About the Contributors

Index of Contributors