Praise for Fool
Three words run through my mind repeatedly-intelligence, sensitivity, compassion. This work withstands the tests of craft and life.
— Lewis Turco
— Lewis Turco
With wit and imagination, McGovern succeeds in relating the microcosm of the personal to the macrocosm of America at large.
— X.J. Kennedy
— X.J. Kennedy
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About the Author
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Robert McGovern, Emeritus Professor of English at Ashland University, was born in Minneapolis in 1927, dropped out of high school to pursue a career as a jazz musician, then returned after a few months and ultimately graduated. Later he majored in literature and writing at the University of Minnesota, where his mentors were Allen Tate and Louis Coxe. He served as an army bandsman during the Korean War, and then worked for a few years as a journalist. McGovern eventually took the M.A. in English at the University of Minnesota. He taught for eight years as an English professor at Radford University in Virginia before joining the faculty at Ashland University, where he served for over a decade of his tenure as chair of English and Creative Writing. He took his Ph.D. at Case-Western Reserve University in 1968, with a dissertation on Robert Herrick, from whom he learned the efficacy of the epigram.
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