Nickel Mountain (37 page)

Gardner in the early 1980s. In the last years before his death, he had become much more interested in politics than in literature, declaring at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1982 that “if you're not writing politically, you're not writing.”

Selected images from The John Gardner Papers, Department of Rare Books/Special Collections, University of Rochester.

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