Publishes memoir 'Time of Our Lives: The Story of My Father and Myself'
Poet involved
What happened
Stackpole Sons published Johns's autobiographical memoir, 'Time of Our Lives: The Story of My Father and Myself,' in New York City. The book chronicles his life and his father's career as editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Literary impact
The memoir represented Johns's most sustained work of prose and his most direct engagement with his own life story, allowing him to synthesize his experiences as poet, activist, and son. Writing it forced him to reckon with his Midwestern roots and his father's influence, themes that had reverberated through his poetry but had never been so explicitly examined.
Source: HathiTrust
