Hilary Price told us about some of her artistic role models—Roz Chast, Gary Larsen—back in 1999, when her comic strip "Rhymes With Orange" had begun making waves. Price, '91, was the youngest woman ever to achieve a syndicated daily strip. This year, as she marked its 15th anniversary and for the second time picked up the National Cartoonists Society award for best newspaper panel, she also sat on the Washington Post's panel of celebrity judges for its "Next Great Cartoonist" competition, joining fellow jurors like Stan Lee and Garry Trudeau as a role model in her own right.
Turner Cassity, one of that select group of poets who were protégés of Stanford's legendary Yvor Winters, died in June 2009. A year earlier Cassity, MA '52, told Stanford that as yet he had "no sense of being written out." Indeed, word comes from his longtime friend Suzanne Doyle, MA '78, in an online Cassity tribute that there's "a gigabyte" of works never published; she posts one of them, "The Imp of the Perverse." Books and chapbooks are forthcoming, Doyle reports.
Richard Zimler couldn't find an American publisher for his first novel, The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, until he had it translated into several foreign languages and it became a bestseller abroad. Twenty years later, Zimler, MA '82, has five more novels under his belt—and the satisfaction of having his filmmaking debut meet with instant success—in New York. Zimler won the best drama award at the New York Downtown Short Film Festival in May for The Slow Mirror, adapted from his own short story.
