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Gregory Bellow
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Kaylie Jones
Wilkes University
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Susan Mailer
Psychoanalytic Association of Santiago
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Keywords:
children of famous writers, father-daughter relationship, Saul Bellow, James Jones, fame and family, memory and autobiography
Abstract
The children of famous writers discuss their childhood experiences living with internationally acclaimed American writers: Saul Bellow, James Jones, and Norman Mailer. The panel was moderated by J. Michael Lennon.
Author Biographies
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Gregory Bellow
Gregory Bellow is a retired psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapist who specialized in work with children. He is a graduate of the College and the School of Social Service Administration of the University of Chicago. He holds a PhD from the Sanville Institute for Clinical Social Work and served on its faculty for thirty years. In retirement, he wrote Saul Bellow’s Heart, a Son’s Memoir.
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Kaylie Jones, Wilkes University
Kaylie Jones is a novelist, creative nonfiction writer, writing professor, and editor and publisher. Her books include Lies My Mother Never Told Me, and A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries, and The Anger Meridian. Kaylie teaches writing at the SUNY Stony Brook/Southampton College M.FA. Program in Writing, and at the Wilkes University Low Residency Program in Professional Writing. She chairs the annual $10,000 James Jones First Novel Fellowship.
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Susan Mailer, Psychoanalytic Association of Santiago
Susan Mailer is a psychoanalyst and a faculty member of the Psychoanalytic Association of Santiago. She supervises and has a private practice in Santiago, Chile. She has recently written In Another place, a forthcoming memoir about her father, Norman Mailer.
