Education
Grinnell College.
Grinnell College.
The couple also co-founded the nonprofit Writer"s Colony at Dairy Hollow. A sixth-generation Bay Area native, he was born in Oakland, California, but grew up in Iowa and attended Grinnell College, after which he served as an intern at The National Trust for Historic Preservation. He did historical research which guided the 1970s renovation of the Old State House in Little Rock.
He was posthumously made a Paul P. Harris Fellow, and an award was named after him: The Ned Shank Award for Excellence in Publication, given annually by the Historic Preservation Alliance of Arkansas.
The Sanyasin"s First Day, a children"s book, was published in 1998 ().