By BILL CLARK*
Larry Andrews graduated from the University of Missouri with a doctorate in English, spent 40 years as a professor and administrator at the University of Nebraska, teaching English, retired in 2008.
Since then, he’s become a novelist and has published his first novel, Songs of Sadness, Songs of Love (Author House, 2010).
He has published four university-level textbooks, one translated into Korean. He has been a consultant to Imo State University in Nigeria and a visiting professor at the University of London.
Larry played tennis for more than 20 years and finally gave up coed slow-pitch softball at age 50. He was an avid fisherman — a catch-and-release guy — until five years ago, when pneumonia plunged him into a two-week coma. He’s fine now, except for nagging post-polio syndrome, has finished a second novel — now en route to the printer — about the theft of intellectual property.
[*This is a redaction of an article by Bill Clark, published on page A2 of the Friday, October 15, 2010 edition of The Columbia (MO) Daily Tribune.]