One of my professors at Portland State, Peter Carafiol introduced me to FATE OF HUMOR. For me it was as a lightening bolt struck me at the heart and soul of SLC / MT. Cox's new introduction to a paperback edition to FATE of some 10 years past is also worth finding and reading. And I will to my bookshelf now re-wander his pages.
My deepest regards to his family in this time.
Gordon Snedecor in Portland, OREGON
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:20:57 -0600
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> Subject: James M. Cox
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> James M. Cox, author of MARK TWAIN AND THE FATE OF HUMOR and countless
> essays on Twain and other American authors died yesterday at his home in
> Independence, Virginia. He was 86.
>
> Jerome Loving