Pushcart Prize co-founder and underground literary icon Hugh Fox recounts his remarkable life

June 26, 2011 - PRLog -- Camp Hill, PA - Sunbury Press has released Hugh Fox's autobiography "Who, Me?".

About the book:
"What I've finally come to is to simply live inside mystery, the inexplicable, the impossible-to-be-explained, an impossible-to-exist me living inside an impossible-to-exist universe." --Hugh Fox

Underground literary legend, Hugh Fox, offers a candid view of Life, his own life, and the interactions of the lives of others who floated in and out of his personal experiential sphere of the universe in his brief yet concise memoir, Who, Me?

Fox invites the reader into a life so full--from his mother dressing him up in women's clothing to his father coercing him into medical school; his search for belonging in the "families" of academia, publishing, beatniks and hipsters, Latin America, transsexuals, Judaism, and his own progeny; and the seemingly-glamorous whirlwind world of the arts and culture--that it leaves little else to be desired. Originally from Chicago, Fox studied culture intensely and traveled widely becoming thoroughly Latinized by early adulthood. Much of Fox's life was shaped by his international interests--from his publishing and academic careers to his personal tastes and selection in women--which factored largely into his career successes and personal adventures.

Never one to be content with the average or mundane, Fox keeps the pace moving with one exciting revelation or humorously self-interested remark after another. The picture of self-awareness-and-actualization?--Fox's question of Who, Me? has not so much to do with the author/poet/scholar he's become as it does with how he evolved into this multifaceted character of his own creation.

List Price: $16.95
5.5" x 8.5" (13.97 x 21.59 cm)
Black & White on Cream paper
276 pages
Sunbury Press, Inc.
ISBN-13: 978-1934597514
ISBN-10: 1934597511
BISAC: Biography & Autobiography / Literary

About Hugh Fox:
Hugh Fox, born in Chicago in 1932, is a writer and one of the founders (with Ralph Ellison, Anais Nin, Paul Bowles, Joyce Carol Oates, Buckminster Fuller and others) of the Pushcart Prize for literature. He has been published in numerous literary magazines and was the first writer to publish a critical study of Charles Bukowski.

Fox was raised in Chicago as a devout Catholic, but converted to Judaism in later life. He has a Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and was a professor at Michigan State University in the Department of American Thought and Language from 1968 until his retirement in 1999.

Praise for Hugh Fox:

Bill Ryan in The Unborn Book: "Hugh Fox is the Paul Bunyan of American Letters, part myth, part monster, and, myself-as-subject, a magnificent non-stop storyteller."

"Hugh Fox...is considered an icon in the small press." (Sandy Raschke, in a review of The Last Summer, in Calliope, January-February, 1996).

"The thoughts and words of Hugh Fox, will cause the reader's mind to pause, slow down, expand, ponder for himself/herself, perhaps wander along un-imagined-before avenues, and down dusty lanes. What more could any sentient author want? .....you will certainly not be the same as before....Kudos are in the wind," review by Joyce Metzger of Hugh Fox:The Greatest Hits, Pudding House Publications, 2003, published on Ibbetson Street Internet Review, January 29, 2003.

For more information, please see:
http://www.sunburypress.com/whome.html

Cover image "Hats" by Lawrence von Knorr

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