My First Time: Christopher Swann

My First Time Meeting an Author
When I was an undergraduate student at Washington and Lee, the author Richard Ford (pictured above) visited campus. I had read his short story “ Rock Springs ” and his most recent novel at the time, The Sportswriter , and I vaguely understood that he was a Serious American Author, an up-and-coming big deal in the world of American literary fiction. One of my professors, Jim Warren, invited me and another creative writing student, Traci Lazenby, to dinner with Rich...