"Neil Gordon, whose cerebral novels about radical politics,
most famously 'The Company You Keep,' challenged readers
with biblical parables and ethical dilemmas, died on May 19
in Manhattan. He was 59. . . . .
. . . he earned . . . . a doctorate from Yale, where his dissertation
was titled** 'Stranger Than Fiction: The Occult Short Stories of
Hawthorne and Balzac.'"
— Sam Roberts in The New York Times
* For the title (suggested by the date May 19), see posts tagged Y for Yale.
** Actually (and more sensibly) titled "Stranger than Fiction:
The Status of Truth in the Occult Short Stories of Hawthorne and Balzac."
