Gerald William Haslam was an author focused on rural and small towns in California's Great Central Valley including its poor and working-class people of all colors.
10 Facts About Gerald Haslam
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Gerald Haslam attended Garces Memorial High School before working as a farm field hand, a store clerk and an oil field roustabout and roughneck.
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Gerald Haslam served in the US Army from 1958 through 1960.
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Gerald Haslam attended, and gave great credit to, Washington State University, 1965 and 1966.
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Gerald Haslam played college football, ran track and boxed in the Golden Gloves.
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Gerald Haslam was a professor of English at Sonoma State University from 1967 to 1997.
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Gerald Haslam taught part time at the Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning at the University of San Francisco from 2001 to 2015.
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Concurrent with his teaching at SSU, Gerald Haslam published numerous articles and stories in national and regional magazines.
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Gerald Haslam was a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle's Sunday magazine and was a Contributing Writer for the Los Angeles Times Sunday magazine, and continued to be an op-ed contributor to the Sacramento Bee.
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Gerald Haslam wrote his own obituary, which was discovered shortly after his death.