Pat, I hope you don't mind that I share this.  I
didn't know he was a newspaperman either, and I've
heard him speak.

Janis

--- Pat Sturm <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: "Pat Sturm" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: "Janis Cramer" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Donald Murray obituary
> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 10:48:36 -0600
>
> Janis, I feel like such a dolt.  Because you and I
> entered the Project at about the same time, we both
> were immersed in Donald Murray.  I remember being so
> impressed when he said he wrote the second edition
> of Write to Learn without even looking at the first.
>  I just went to the bookshelf and pulled my copy --
> my marked up and well-used copy.  But here's the
> dumb part.  Somehow, I failed to grasp that he was a
> newspaper man!  I simply saw him in the ivory tower
> of academe moving the rest of us forward.
>
> Now I will search for books of his columns.
> Personal essay is still my favorite form of writing,
> especially those of Anna Quinlin.  They deal with a
> single subject in a single voice.  I feel as if I
> know those essayists.  I write my newspaper column
> that way even though it is based on gardening.  I
> want my readers to know me.
>
> Thanks for sending this.  I'll need Kleenex, of
> course.
>
> Pat Sturm
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