The Penniless Shakespeare Scholar

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Lawrence Person

This story of an itinerant Shakespeare scholar with no job and no fixed address, who lived in a succession of homes by the kindness of strangers, is fascinating reading. It also reminds me, ever so slightly, of someone I know…

About Lawrence Person

Lawrence Person is a science fiction writer living in Austin, Texas. His short fiction has appeared in Asimov's, Analog, Postscripts, Jim Baen's Universe, Fear, and several anthologies. He also edits the Hugo-nominated SF critical magazine Nova Express, and runs the Turkey City Writer's Workshop. His non-fiction has appeared in National Review, Reason, Whole Earth Review, The Freeman, The World & I, Science Fiction Eye, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Slashdot.org. He owns such a large library (mostly science fiction first editions) he had to buy a two-story house to put it in, and then adopted a golden retriever to drag him out of his house on a regular basis. He also makes a mean batch of salsa.
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One Response to The Penniless Shakespeare Scholar

  1. Dwight Brown says:
    March 11, 2011 at 7:56 AM

    Fascinating. Also reminds me a lot of the mathematician Paul Erdős.

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