Poetic Obituaries: [Donald Murray] had worked for Time

magazine, and then went on to a prolific freelance career, turning out pieces for The Saturday Evening Post, Reader's Digest and the era's other so-called slick magazines. Add to the pile more than ten books of fiction, memoir, poetry--and, his first love, ignited as a boy prowling the stacks of the Wollaston, Mass., Public Library--the craft of writing

from Poynter: An Appreciation of Don Murray: The Things He Gave

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