Lillian Hellman, the playwright and a good friend of Bundy’s, remembers being with Bundy in Cambridge one night when he suddenly said to her, “Why don’t you come up here and teach?” “Oh,” she said, “the English department wouldn’t want me.” “We’ll see about that,” he said. Off he went and in about an hour he called her. “It’s all set.” “But I don’t know how to teach,” she protested. “But you know something about writing,” he answered. “Give them some real work. Teach them how to take from what’s really around them and how to use it.”
