Why did my father, Ross Lockridge, Jr., execute himself while his first novel, Raintree County, was the Nation's number one bestseller? Raintree County was a Book of the Month Club main selection. It had won the highly publicized MGM novel prize. A long excerpt appeared in LIFE, America's premier organ of popular culture which had hitherto not published fiction before. The novel was an informal contender for becoming the mythical Great American Novel. He went to his death in full knowledge that his life, viewed from the street, exceeded all but the most extravagant of human dreams. This story is grounded personally, and in the culture of the time--e.g., the Kinsey Institute, andthe Hollywod of Elizabeth Taylor, Motgomery Clift, Eva Marie Saint. Wardell Pomeroy, Kinsey's colorful wing man, was our Bloomington, Indiana neighbor, and as a child horsing around with the Pomeroy kids I became privy to peculiarities that shed light on my father's place in history, and on the covert culture of pervasive pedophilia, incest, and childhood sexual abuse, cocooned by institutional protection and denial, and permitted to persist, and to wreak unacknowledged havoc in the lives of innocents to this day.

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Ernest Lockridge graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Indiana University. He was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and Lewis-Farmington Fellow at Yale University, where he was a faculty member for eight years. Yale's seven undergraduate literary prizes were won by his students with work written under his supervision. His books have appeared in hardcover and paperback editions. A novel was optioned by Hollywood; another was a Book-of -the-Month-Club selection. His criticism has appeared in The Sewanee Review, Modern Fiction Studies, The Journal of Narrative Technique, The Hemingway Review, The Dictionary of Literary Biography,and in numerous critical anthologies. Ernest is Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Writing at The Ohio State University where he received The OSU Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. He co-authored Travels with Ernest with his famous wife, sociologist and poet Laurel Richardson. He is a jazz musician and painter of award-winning paintings that have appeared in solo exhibits, galleries, and on the cover of books. He is father of three, stepfather of two, grandfather of eight.

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