“It’s like opening a slit of light in a dark place you hadn’t seen.” “John never helped write one single word, but he helped with his criticism tremendously,” Doerr said. Harriet Doerr, a National Book Award winner, described his influence in the San Jose Mercury News West magazine in 1996. Needing an extra hour, an extra week, an extra year. It gives us all great satisfaction to think of some young writer in a room, struggling with their work. The stability of Creative Writing at Stanford, to this day, shows how solid, patient and generous his efforts were. “He had a clear-eyed conviction that the hardest thing to buy in the world is time for young writers. “Out of his own great distinction as a writer came his absolute commitment to the talent of others,” she said. L’Heureux noted in his academic biography that he was a “tireless, inspiring teacher utterly committed to his vocation” and was proud to be twice named winner of the Stanford Humanities & Sciences Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.Įavan Boland, the Bella Mabury and Eloise Mabury Knapp Professor in Humanities, who now serves as the Melvin and Bill Lane Professor and Director of the Creative Writing Program, noted her predecessor’s felicity with students. He directed the highly regarded Creative Writing Program and directed the Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellowship program for years, where his proteges included, among many others, National Medal of Arts recipient Tobias Wolff, Harriet Doerr and Ron Hansen. Henry Awards, among many others.Īs a professor, L’Heureux is remembered by the students who knew him best as an erudite and giving teacher.
Cicero)Īs a writer, L’Heureux penned some 20 volumes of fiction and poetry, had works published in the Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Harper’s and The New Yorker (most recently in October 2018), and was anthologized in the Best American Stories and Prize Stories: The O.
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