Seldom Disappointed - a Memoir
C 2001 author
Harper Colins Publishers
page 233
"Friedman taught a writing course that focused on the essay. He was himself an author, which impressed me, and he saw promise in my work - which impressed me even more. Early in this course he asked me why I never wrote in the first person. I told him journalists are conditioned to be invisible, to be what Walter Lippmann called "the fly on the wall," seeing everything and feeling nothing. Try it, he said. Do me a memoir bit... I proposed a thousand words on something that had happened last months. No, he said."
Dr. Morris Friedman taught Tony Hillerman at the University of New Mexico, English department in winter 1963...
