One foot in the grave
Posted: 10 Aug 2012 @ 00:26
Thomas Lynch, an award-winning author, poet, and funeral
director, makes his début at the Greenbelt Festival this month. He
talks to Jo Browning Wroe
IT IS not unusual for successful writers to practise other
trades. It is well known that T. S. Eliot worked in a bank; perhaps
less so that Harper Lee was an airline reservation clerk. Both
Anthony Trollope and William Faulkner worked for the Post Office:
Trollope, it is said, dipped into the lost-letter box for
ideas.
Thomas Lynch is an internationally acclaimed poet, essayist,
and short-story writer who also has another job. What makes him
unsual, though, is how committed he is ...
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