Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. A SLANT OF LIGHT chronicles the life and death of a beautiful woman from ovarian cancer. More than a narrative of her struggle with cancer, however, this is a love story, exploring the richness of life, its joys and adversities as well as the complexity of loss experienced by those left behind. Written by her husband, the book recounts their life together and the challenges he faces in coming to terms with her death. In writing he discovers the power of memory to provide solace. From his sadness arises a new understanding of their lives together, while she emerges as an image of every woman whose dedication to life as a mother, teacher, and artist inspired all who knew her. We come to see her life as rich and full of meaning as the beautiful quilts in which she stitched together the fabrics of experience in all its colors.

Author City: CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA USA

Galbraith Miller Crump married Joan Lee in 1952 and spent the next 54 years by her side, raising five sons while teaching in the United States, Canada, France and England. He took his B.A. from Hamilton College, then a Master's at Reading University, England, and a Ph.D. at St. John's College, Oxford. He taught at the University of Wisconsin; Yale; the University of Mount Allison in New Brunswick, Canada; the Institute for American Universities in Aix-en-Provence, France; the University of Exeter in England; and at Kenyon College in Ohio, where he served as the John Crowe Ransom Professor of Literature and as Editor of the Kenyon Review (1982-1987). He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Human Letters by Kenyon College in 1990. His lifelong interests have included painting, book collecting, camping and traveling with his family.