Hugging My Father’s Ghost: A Memoir of a Shortened Life
A memoir of loss, memory, and the lifelong search for a father gone too soon.
In this memoir, Zack Rogow tries to solve the mystery of the father he never knew. Lee Rogow was a widely published fiction writer, drama critic for the Hollywood Reporter, glamorous man-about-town in Manhattan of the 1950s, captain of a U.S. Navy landing craft in World War II—and he died tragically in a plane crash when his son Zack was only three years old.
About Cirque Author — Zack Rogow
Zack Rogow is the author, editor, or translator of more than twenty books and works for the theater. His play Colette Uncensored has been performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and on three continents. His honors include the PEN/ Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize, and the Lili Fabilli-Eric Hoffer Essay Prize from University of California, Berkeley. Zack’s blog, Advice for Writers, features 300 posts. For more than a decade, he taught in the MFA creative writing program at the University of Alaska Anchorage. His literary translations include works by Colette, George Sand, André Breton, and Marcel Pagnol.