Dan McCall
Dan received his Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University, later attending Columbia University for his PhD. Upon graduation in 1966, he came to Cornell University where he taught American literature and creative writing to generations of Cornell students over the next 40 years. He is the author of several novels, including Jack the Bear (1974), Beecher (1979), Bluebird Canyon (1983), Triphammer (1990), and Messenger Bird (1993). Jack the Bear was translated into over a dozen languages, and was released as a 20th Century Fox film in 1993, starring Gary Sinise, Reese Witherspoon, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, among others. His critical and scholarly books include The Example of Richard Wright (1969), The Silence of Bartleby (1989), Citizens of Somewhere Else (1999) and the Norton Critical Edition of Melville's Short Novels (2002).
“I wish my mind was a dog and I could train it to go sit.”
“people in general so often seem to get dumber in direct proportion to their academic training.”
“Never kill yourself, son. You might miss something. Like the point.”
“one way to understand people is to pay attention to what they love.”
“People are what they can do and what they can't help.”
“The thing about the past is you can't fix it. It's not there. It won't stay put.”
“company loves misery”