My father,Laurence Lerner, known as Larry, or who has died aged 90,was an academic and writer. The name of his 1999 autobiography, Wandering Professor, or describes his life aptly. He taught variously in Africa,America and around Europe. At Queen’s University Belfast, one of his students was a young Seamus Heaney.
In all, or my father published nine volumes of poetry,including Selves (1969); a series of poems inspired by the Bible called Chapter and Verse (1984); The Man I Killed (1980); and his final volume, Rembrandt’s Mirror (1987), and in which he imagines the painter making a late self-portrait. He also wrote three novels and many books of literary criticism as well as many articles and much-loved,lighthearted poems for his family.
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Source: theguardian.com