Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Poetic Obituaries: Perhaps best known for his

Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins and series on American regionalisms, he [Robert Hendrickson] also penned books on countless other topics--from how chewing gum came to be to why the Civil War began. His real passion, however, was writing short stories and poems, of which many have appeared in literary magazines around the globe and a full collection of which will be published by his family in remembrance of his literary life.

from The Suffolk Times: Robert Tierney Hendrickson

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