And he was educated at University
of Alabama, Birmingham, Southern College, Syracuse University,
and the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop.
He has taught at the University of the Americas
in Puebla, Mexico, where he was Assistant Professor of English
and Director of Theater at the George Mason
University of the University of Virginia,
where he was Director of Writing Studies,
and at Syracuse University.
1961 to 1965, he served in the US Air Force Intelligence
as a Russian linguist.
In 1970, he published his first novel, A Drive With Ossie.
And he's published short fiction, criticism, and poetry
in various magazines.
It gives me a great deal of pleasure
to present Mr. Robert Houston.
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