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Personal Information
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First Name
Larry
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Last Name
Gray
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Gender
Male
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Birthday
February 11, 1943
Personal Details
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About Me
Larry Gray
603 E. Robert
Hammond, LA 70401
985- 345-2098
larrygray211@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Cathedral Latin School, Cleveland, Ohio, 1961
University of Dayton: Dayton, Ohio, B.A. in English;
minors in French, philosophy, and theology, cum laude. 1966
University of Notre Dame: Ph.D. in English specializing in renaissance literature. 1971
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2006-2015 Writer
1992- 2006 Professor Emeritus and Artist-in-Residence, Southeastern Louisiana University.
1988-1992 Professor, English department and department of communications and theatre.
1981-1988 Associate Professor, English department.
1972-1981 Assistant Professor, English department.
1971-1972 Teacher, International Riviera School, Cannes, France.
1967-1970 Teaching assistant, University of Notre Dame.
1966-1967 High school teacher, St. Joseph High School and Cathedral Latin School,
Cleveland, Ohio.
PUBLICATIONS of FICTION
“Read these instructions silently as I read them aloud” (poem) Notre Dame English Journal, Spring, 1969.
“King Lear: only the Fool Left to Mourn” (poem) The Goliards, June, 1969.
“Careful cross of Terry cloth” (poem) The Goliards, June, 1969.
“There is a wrought iron fence” (poem) The Goliards, June, 1969.
“Chartres #1" (poem) Innisfree, 1974.
“A Careful Capriole” (poem) Innisfree, 1975.
“Casting” (fiction) U.S. Catholic, February, 1981.
“Copperhead” (fiction) The Antigonish Review, Winter, 1982.
Shane, C.D.X. (Screenplay) Sold but never filmed.
“Keeping Score” (fiction) Scrivener, Summer, 1983.
“Spreading Fires by John Knowles” (criticism) in Contemporary Literary Criticism, 1984.
“The Fairy Mound” (fiction) The Ball State Journal, Fall, 1984.
“My Aunt Antonia Barbarossa’s Terminal Insomnia” (fiction) The Ball State Journal, Fall, 1985.
“The Real Leather Chair” (fiction) The Louisville Review, Fall, 1985.
“Ethical System and Moral Choice in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice and Measure for Measure, Innisfree, 1986.
“Gold for Passage” (fiction), Nimrod, Fall, 1987.
Scrapbooks (play), Theatre Communications Group, Plays in Process, 1988.
“What is Creativity?” (Essay), Southeastern Magazine, 1991
“Bugs” (fiction), City Primeval, July, 1998.
“Programmed” (fiction), South Carolina Review, Spring 1999.
Rounding Third and Heading for Home, (novel) published on Kindle, 2012.
The Land of the Three Elves Volume 1: Beginnings, Outskirts Press, 2012.
The Land of the Three Elves Volume 2: Inside the Curve of the River, Outskirts Press, 2013.
Bayou Coeur and Other Stories, Clemson University Press, 2015.
I am now retired from full time teaching after twenty years at Southeastern Louisiana University and an additional fourteen years as an artist in residence directing two operas or musicals a year for the music department. I also act and direct in other places as much as I can.
My passions are as follows: my wife, Beth, my son Ian and my daughter Juliet, and now my daughter-in-law, Anne and grandchildren, Connor, Nina, Bridget, Nathan, Julian and Titus and Mike Janssen and grandson, Miles, writing, directing and acting and everything about theater, massage therapy especially related to performers, the Cleveland Indians and the Cleveland Browns, Notre Dame, mystery novels, darjeeling tea and late afternoon naps.