Robert Lacy is an American writer, of short stories. He was born and raised in East Texas, and served in the United States Marines. He graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was a student of Richard Yates. He lives in Medicine Lake, Minnesota.Robert Lacy's stories are direct, honest, grace-filled, and useful. The Natural Father is that good thing, a book that both sweetens and illuminates our lives.“I think we all wanted to be Richard Yates,” his student Robert Lacy remembered. “I know for a fact that I did. He was tall, lanky, and movie-star handsome back then, and he moved in an aura of sad, doom-haunted, F. Scott Fitzgeraldian grace. He was Gatsby and Nick Carraway and Dick Diver all rolled into one. Wikipedia
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