Rust Hills
Lawrence Rust "Rusty" Hills (November 9, 1924 – August 12, 2008) was an American author and fiction editor at
Books written
His 1972 book How To Do Things Right: The Revelations of a Fussy Man was a set of humorous essays filled with obsessively-detailed instructions on, for example, the correct way to make and eat milk-toast and clean ashtrays which "throughout its whole lifetime in a well-ordered household,an ashtray need never travel more than three feet from where it belongs, and never be out of place at all for more than thirty seconds".
In 1974 he edited "Writer's Choice" a collection of short stories. The writers included picked their personal favorite of their own work. Contributors included Updike, Mailer, Capote, Southern, Barth and Roth. David McKay Company, Inc. 1974 0679302700
His 1979 book Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular outlined his views on short story craft.[2]
Early life, family, and death
Hills attended Kenyon College for one year and received a B.A. and M.A. from Wesleyan University in 1948 and 1949, respectively.[3] He was briefly married to Jean Rikhoff, with whom he traveled Europe. He died in Belfast, Maine of cardiac arrest.[1] His survivors are his wife of 35 years, writer Joy Williams, and daughter Caitlin Hills.
References
- ^ New York Times
- ^ Hills, Rust (1979). Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular: An Informal Textbook. Bantam Books, 1979 9780553123791
- ^ "Obituaries - Alumni Bulletin - Kenyon College". Archived from the original on June 26, 2010. Retrieved November 1, 2010.
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