Unlike Marsha, who saw it as her responsibility to decorate and maintain their house, to organize dinner parties and surround him with intellectual friends who kept him stimulated, Susan had been accustomed to living an independent life of her own. She traveled widely by herself and with her sons, and she did not manage Robin’s day-to-day affairs and did not always accompany him when he worked out of town. “Any time he traveled, Marsha was very good at putting him in touch with Oliver Sacks or Salman Rushdie or Bob De Niro, so that he was constantly stimulated,” their friend Cyndi McHale
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