Toby Andrew Amirault authored the books "Things My Mother Said II" and "Linus Welch" (Ivy Press, 1991 and 1993, respectively) and was a graduate of Tufts University. He died March 13, 2001 in Columbia, South Carolina.
One of the books that jumped out at me in the very early nineties -- even before Generation X and Shampoo Planet. I picked this book up and realized books could matter to me as much as records.
I read this book a very long time ago and made this note about it in my journal - "It was a lousy book devoid of truth, beauty, and most importantly - point."