“It’s a crime families don’t understand how their children are oriented, and point them along their natural way,” Mr. Cunningham wrote in an early chapter. Advertisement Continue reading the main story“It feels like he had internalized that reaction,” Mr. Richards said of the disapprovals of his childhood. “Bill kept his family life in Boston and his work life in New York very separate,” wrote his niece Trish Simonson, in an email. In a preface commissioned by Mr. Richards, Hilton Als, a writer for The New Yorker, remarks on the “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” flavor of Mr. Cunningham’s reminiscences. “Bill was a true original,” Mr. Richards said.

Source: New York Times March 21, 2018 17:48 UTC