Re: Jerome Jerome

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> Last month I was at a fiction reading by Jamaica Kincaid and she spoke
> about William Shawn from the New Yorker haunting her as she wrote. Every
> word she chose and every sentence she drew made her think of Shawn and
> how he would react to it is how she described it. Afterwards I couldn't
> get her to talk about it in more detail all she would say rather
> ambiguously was that he was her friend.

He was her father-in-law.  (She married one of his two sons, the one who is
NOT Wallace Shawn; his name escapes me at the moment.)

That was a nice memory she had, and is something that has been said by many
writers who had the chance to work with William Shawn.

--tim o'connor

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