Education
Wesleyan University; Kenyon College.
Wesleyan University; Kenyon College.
Authors he championed include Norman Mailer, John Cheever, William Styron, Bruce Jay Friedman, William Gaddis, James Salter, Don DeLillo, Joy Williams, Ann Beattie, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver and East. Annie Proulx. His 1972 book How To Do Things Right: The Revelations of a Fussy Manitoba was a set of humorous essays filled with obsessively-detailed instructions on, for example, the correct way to make and eat milk-toast. In 1974 he edited "Writer"s Choice" a collection of short stories.
The writers included picked their personal favorite of their own work.
Contributors included Updike, Mailer, Capote, Southern, Barth and Roth. David McKay Company, Incorporated.
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His 1979 book Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular outlined his views on short story craft. Hills attended Kenyon College for one year and received a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts from Wesleyan University in 1948 and 1949, respectively.
He died in Belfast, Maine of cardiac arrest.