Thursday, October 23, 2025
I have known Frank for almost 40 years. I first met him at a summer seminar at Brown University in the summer of 1986. A group of us professors working in the same field became friends throughout that summer and subsequently presented at conferences on and off for the next 25 years. We would run into each other drink great wine, eat great food, and share one another’s papers and books.
All of us who knew Frank knew him as a man who loved literature and writing and who spoke often about his family.
Frank surprised all of us when he suddenly began writing novels, and continued to produce one every two or three years, even though each one was going to be his “last one.”
Frank will be sorely missed by all of us. He was a good friend and colleague who added life, complexity, and knowledge of good wine, to our band of English professors from all over the country.
Dr. Maureen Thum, University of Michigan-Flint
