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John McPhee believes that no kind of student is more receptive to writing instruction than the college sophomore. As a sophomore at Princeton, I was lucky that a master of historical narrative, the late Robert K. Massie, filled in to teach Humanities 406, the Literature of Fact, during the spring of 1977 while John was off reporting in Alaska, and that Bob made a place in his class for this freshly declared history major. Four years earlier, as a sophomore at Brighton High School outside Rochester, New York, I had learned the importance of rigor and revision in the Critical Reading and Writing class of Elizabeth Hart. Hers has been the voice inside my writing head ever since.
My late parents, Nikolaus and Mary Wolff, were adamantly private people. They were also fiercely dedicated to the commons and raised me not just to practice good citizenship but to proselytize for it. To tell this story was to set one instinct of my parents against the other. Which one won out was entirely my call.
Frank and Clara—by making fatherhood real for me, you helped fire this story with meaning.
Finally, Vanessa. First to support this. First to read it. Always first to put us first, and first in my heart, always. Budeˇjovice.
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