My Biggest Fan
On my father-in-law's sudden death
“So when a great man dies, for years beyond our ken, the light he leaves behind him, lies upon the paths of men. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ken Fenoglio was my biggest fan.
From the second I started dating his daughter — way back in the late 1990s — he read everything I wrote. He would comment on the articles. He would send me notes about…
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