From the above . . .
"He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York
in 1954 and, in 1958, from Yale, where he was managing editor
of The Yale Daily News.
He was briefly a book editor at Random House, where in 1962
he read a manuscript that Cormac McCarthy had mailed over
the transom. He recommended the work for publication and
spent a year working with Mr. McCarthy on what became his
first novel, 'The Orchard Keeper.' "
See as well the above death date, May 19, in this journal.