Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site proper.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!proper!judith From: judith@proper.UUCP (Judith Abrahms) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers,net.books Subject: Writing offspring of writers Message-ID: <299@proper.UUCP> Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 05:10:58 EDT Article-I.D.: proper.299 Posted: Wed Sep 18 05:10:58 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Sep-85 03:59:27 EDT References: <> Reply-To: judith@proper.UUCP (judith) Distribution: net Organization: Proper UNIX, Oakland CA Lines: 45 Xref: watmath net.sf-lovers:10147 net.books:2320 In article <> wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) writes: > [Remarks about SIDNEY'S COMET, an SF novel by Brian Herbert, son of Frank...] >By the way, this brings up a topic we could fuss over -- parent-child >groupings of SF writers. Anybody know of any other SF writers whose parent(s) >were also SF Writers, or who has a child who writes SF professionally? > >The only parent-child combination that comes to mind in SF is Fritz >Lieber Sr. and Jr., and the Senior was an actor, not a writer...] > I can think of only a couple offhand. Kurt Vonnegut's son Mark wrote a book about his nervous breakdown, called _Eden_Express_ I think, in the early '70s or thereabout. Vonnegut Sr. appears to Mark in a dream in one poignantly funny section set in a nuthouse. It was a fine book. I haven't seen anything by Mark V. since. William Burroughs had a son, who died some time recently. Under the name William Burroughs III, he published two novels: _Speed_ and _Kentucky_Ham_. He was good! _Speed_ appears to be slightly fictionalized autobiography. WSBIII sounded to me like a young, innocent, idealistic WSB Sr., only on speed and psychedelics AND heroin, instead of just opiates. _Speed_ is an amusing and hair-raising picture of the teen-agers' drug world in the late '60s or thereabouts (all these dates are approximate because I haven't looked at the books for a while). _Kentucky_Ham_ is also about addiction. Lastly, Vladimir Nabokov fathered one son, Dmitri, who used to study at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA, where I worked briefly & had access to the student files. I happened to read a charming letter from Dmitri, written in 1967, saying he wouldn't be able to come back from Europe unless he were granted a scholarship. I believe he became an opera singer. However, he has also translated into English, both in collaboration with VN and alone I think, a substantial number of the elder Nabokov's Russian novels and stories (early works produced before VN's emigration to America and "love affair with the English language"). Dmitri N. is VERY good. And under Miscellaneous: In the mid-Sixties, in NYC, I met Tim Marquand, son of J.P. Marquand, who was a fairly well-known American writer in the '40s and '50s. Tim was a jazz musician. He lived across the street from the Five Spot, where Thelonious Monk was most often working in those days, and Tim hosted a great many jam sessions for a spectrum of musicians ranging from cutting-edge geniuses to earnest beginners like me. He appeared to have a nice income and no particular aspirations, but I didn't know him well. Judith Abrahms {ucbvax,ihnp4}!dual!proper!judith Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com