I'm the disrespectful son. It's the pact you make as a writer. Jong credited Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Maya Angelou with drawing value and strength from her own roots and inspiring other writers to do the same. You take it with you. Any attempt to be anything than what you are is awkward, ugly, terrible ungraceful.
Facts can obscure the truth.
I never let it slide. Later, McCourt explained that she misunderstood him. Former president of the Author's Guild, Jong organized the event to launch the publication of Inventing Memory , a novel about four generations of women in a family, beginning with the great-grandmother Sarah who immigrates to America from Russia. Although her other books have had Jewish threads, this is her first book with an altogether Jewish theme. The Angel Orensanz Foundation was founded by Al and Angel Orensanz in 1992.