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Show EDWARD G. LUEDERS brua was not the sort of thing that music teachers would ask me to do. R pr due . imagination and creativity. 1 2 urb th WIN: After you graduated from Hanover, what were your plans with an Engli h ... EDW: My plans were to be a musician, and I got together with the Army trio that I had been playing with in Kingston, Georgia, where we had a job for the summer playing in a roadhouse. This is laughable! And for the summer, freshly married, we went down to Georgia and I played in a roadhouse, But I decided, "This is not for me." So I went back- tried out for a radio announcers job, I don't have the voice for it, obviously, as this tape will make clear- that was in Lynchburg, Virginia, and it was a connection set up for me by Norman Simpson (who was one of the CBI trio that I used as the basis for the trio in the novel). Norman Simpson later became the "Berkshire Traveler", and wrote guide books called "Country Roads and Back Road Inns." He became famous in New England in the Berkshires, where he lived. And beyond. WIN: Oh, really? And you knew him in ... EDW: He was as close to a buddy as I had in India. Wonderful guy. Died from a car accident comparatively young. But back then, I was at a loss, because these two trialsthe music and the radio - which I had had a foot in, at least, during my experiences with the army, didn't work out. So, what do you do? You have the G.I. Bill, that had already helped me finish out my undergraduate work. I was married and back in Chicago, living close to my family, kind of by default. So I signed up at Northwestern for a M.A., for a year's work that led to the M.A. in English at Northwestern University. 58 |
