Harvey Swados 1920-1972

Harvey Swados 1920-1972

Harvey Swados is a man with a white beard, full-figured, handsome as the very devil, a writer with novels, stories, essays behind him. Beaming with a child’s delight, he shows us his new house in Chesterfield, a wonderful old house, notched with the weight of generations yet already bearing the marks of his own pleasures. It’s a place where you encounter a variable number of Swadoses, people laughing, quarreling, shouting, working. Harvey tells me with a grin, knowing how to incite a city boy’s imagination, that in Chesterfield you can go snowshoeing, across the meadows behind the house. Somewhere in his mind a new book is gathering, but it’s not yet close, and he doesn’t mean to hurry it. By now we’re...