Education
Graduate writing program department English, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 1972.
Graduate writing program department English, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 1972.
Instructor, assistant professor, then associate professor department English, University Pittsburgh, since 1969. Professor, 1990; visiting professor grad. Editor: The Essayist at Work, 1997, Emerging Writers in Creative Nonfiction Book Series.
Producer, narrator, writer film A Place Just Right, 1980. Editor, founder Creative Nonfiction. Contributor articles, essays, stories to newspapers, magazines, professional journals.
Author
b. Pittsburgh, January 3, 1945. Bachelor cum laude, University Pittsburgh, 1968. Instructor, assistant professor, then associate professor department English, University Pittsburgh, since 1969.
Professor, 1990
part-time instructor Community College of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 1969-1972. Visiting professor graduate writing program department English, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 1972. Director Mid-Atlantic Creative Nonfiction Summer Writer's Conference at Goucher College, Baltimore.
Consultant Aluminum Company American, 1977-1981, United States Information Agency Author: Bike Fever, 1973, Best Seat in Baseball, But You Have to Stand, 1975, God's Helicopter, 1983, The People of Penn's Woods West, 1984, Our Roots Grow Deeper than We Know, 1985, Many Sleepless Nights: The World of Organ Transplantation, 1988, One Children's Place, A Profile of Pediatrics, 1990, Stuck in Time, The Tragedy of Childhood Mental Illness, 1993, (nonfiction) How to Live It and Work It, 1996, The Art of Creative Nonfiction, 1997, An Unspoken Art, 1997, Surviving Crisis, A Creative Nonfiction Reader, 1997. Editor: The Essayist at Work, 1997, Emerging Writers in Creative Nonfiction Book Series. Producer, narrator, writer film A Place Just Right, 1980.
Founder Pennsylvania Review, 1984. Editor, founder Creative Nonfiction.
Member Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Delta Epsilon.