Adam Haslett, a graduate of Yale Law School, is the author of a
collection of short stories, You Are Not a Stranger Here (Anchor), and a
recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction.
The story of Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun illustrates the value of a truly independent judiciary.
In January 1948 Dutton brought out the third novel of a promising young
writer named Gore Vidal. The publishing house was nervous.


