From his obituary:
Raymond J. Smith, a founder and the longtime editor of The Ontario Review, a noted literary journal, died on Feb. 18 [2008] in Princeton, N.J. He was 77 and lived in Princeton. The cause was complications of pneumonia, according to the Blackwell Memorial Home in Pennington, N.J.
With his wife, the novelist Joyce Carol Oates, Mr. Smith founded The Ontario Review in 1974. ...
Raymond Joseph Smith was born in Milwaukee on March 12, 1930. He earned a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, followed by a Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1960. He later taught at the University of Windsor in Ontario and at New York University before becoming a full-time editor and publisher.
He was the author of “Charles Churchill” (Twayne, 1977), a study of the 18th-century English poet and satirist.
In addition to Ms. Oates, whom he married in 1961, Mr. Smith is survived by a sister, Mary.
Joyce Carole Oates' husband had acquired one of those superbugs, presumably in the hospital. The doctors may or may not have said, "well, those infections are in the community now, so the fact of an infection does not mean he acquired it in hospital." As if that excused their sloppiness. How did they get in the wild; they got there from hospitals.
Oates's husband, cherished and protected his wife's creativity, possibly sacrificing his own artistic life to do this. This protection included his doing the daily chores involved in caring for their cats.
Raymond J. Smith, a founder and the longtime editor of The Ontario Review, a noted literary journal, died on Feb. 18 [2008] in Princeton, N.J. He was 77 and lived in Princeton. The cause was complications of pneumonia, according to the Blackwell Memorial Home in Pennington, N.J.
With his wife, the novelist Joyce Carol Oates, Mr. Smith founded The Ontario Review in 1974. ...
Raymond Joseph Smith was born in Milwaukee on March 12, 1930. He earned a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, followed by a Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1960. He later taught at the University of Windsor in Ontario and at New York University before becoming a full-time editor and publisher.
He was the author of “Charles Churchill” (Twayne, 1977), a study of the 18th-century English poet and satirist.
In addition to Ms. Oates, whom he married in 1961, Mr. Smith is survived by a sister, Mary.
Joyce Carole Oates' husband had acquired one of those superbugs, presumably in the hospital. The doctors may or may not have said, "well, those infections are in the community now, so the fact of an infection does not mean he acquired it in hospital." As if that excused their sloppiness. How did they get in the wild; they got there from hospitals.
Oates's husband, cherished and protected his wife's creativity, possibly sacrificing his own artistic life to do this. This protection included his doing the daily chores involved in caring for their cats.
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