The Life of Jack Gray

About the Book

Jack Gray, born into a working-class, fundamentalist, and republican family, becomes an unbeliever as a college freshman, gets radicalized while a teaching assistant some years later, and bolts out of a librarian job and gets psychotic in San Francisco. Rebuilding his life, Jack suffers through a hellish library job, goes into exile in Eastern Washington, and there finally finishes his PhD. Up and abruptly down, Jack has no job, goes to Spokane, flees out of there to Seattle once more, and there, by means of welfare, manages to survive. He lives not precisely happily afterwards in Eastern Washington.

About the Author

Paul John Green was born in 1936 in Seattle, Washington, and is now an independent critic and scholar in comparative literature, emergent creative writer, and armchair activist residing in Eugene, Oregon. He has co-edited one book and edited another, and is the author of The Life of Jack Gray: An Education in Living and in Love, The Song of Eugene with Translations from the Poetry of Heinrich Heine and Rene Char, a number of limited-edition scholarly books and minibooks, articles, notes, reviews, bibliographies, letters, other poems, and an abstract. And he is increasingly moving into non-belleletristic terrain.