Ducornet"s father was a professor of sociology, and her mother hosted community-interest programs on radio and television Ducornet grew up on the campus of Bard College in New York, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts from the same institution in 1964.
Bard College.
While at Bard she met Robert Coover and Robert Kelly, two authors who shared Ducornet"s fascination with metamorphosis and provided early models of how fiction might express this interest. In 1989 she moved back to North America after accepting a teaching position in the English Department at The University of Denver. In 2007, she replaced retired Doctor Ernest Gaines as Writer in Residence at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
In 2008, The American Academy of Arts and Letters conferred upon her one of the eight annual Academy Awards presented to writers.
Although Fagen himself would not confirm the story, Ducornet was quoted that she believed she was indeed the subject of the song.
American Academy of Arts and Letters.
