Photo“I suspect there’s something essentially human about what I fought my way through,” Mr. Timberg wrote. Robert Richard Timberg was born on June 16, 1940, in Miami Beach, the son of Samuel Timberg, a vaudevillian and composer, and the former Rosemarie Sinnott, a dancer. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyAfter his discharge from the Marines, Mr. Timberg studied journalism and earned a master’s degree in 1969 from Stanford University. “I said, ‘You’ve got to be kidding, you know I’ve never had a word in print in my life, not even kindergarten or high school — nowhere,’” Mr. Timberg told NPR in 2014. In “Blue-Eyed Boy,” Mr. Timberg invoked the “relief at having defied death and a kind of macho attitude” that a seriously injured serviceman like him feels.

Source: New York Times September 13, 2016 00:33 UTC