ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Robie Macauley’s career spanned 50 years during which he published fiction, The Disguises of Love (1952), The End of pity and Other Stories (1957), A Secret History of Time to Come (1979) and a popular textbook on writing (Technique in Fiction, 1966), plus over a hundred short stories. He taught literature and writing at Bard College, The University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop, The University of North Carolina, Kenyon College, The University of Illinois, Emerson College, and the Harvard Extension. During the final years of his career, he was a Senior Editor at Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company.
Cameron Macauley has worked in humanitarian aid and international development since 1984. He has published short fiction in The North American Review, The Sonora Review, Prism International, and Quick Fiction.
