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Unable or unwilling to conform to the rigid atmosphere of Washington and Lee College as a freshman Ed bailed out after a brief stint there to attendand graduate fromMiami of Ohio After graduate work at UK he left for the Left Coast and it suited him just fine The first stop was a writing instructorship at Oregon State then enrollment into the Stanford Writing Program a move shared by Jim Wendell and Gurney There he cultivated among other things relationships with Larry McMurtry Robert Stone andmost importantlyKen Kesey Ed didnt just experience the 1960s he wallowed in them Also a bonus interview from 1996 program Signature Live