16 Facts About Robie Macauley

Robie Macauley was born on May 31,1919, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Robie Macauley was the older brother of the noted photographer and movie producer C Cameron Macauley.

Robie Macauley's uncle owned and published the Hudsonville newspaper, The Ottawa Times, and Macauley used the printing press to publish his first books of fiction and poetry.

Robie Macauley was elected to Phi Beta Kappa during February 1941, and the same year was awarded a fellowship to attend the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.

Robie Macauley was drafted in March 1942 and served in World War II as a special agent in the Counterintelligence Corps with the 97th Infantry Division, in the "Ruhr Pocket" and then in Japan after the war.

Robie Macauley wrote four autobiographical short stories based on his experiences doing intelligence work, collected in The End of Pity and Other Stories,.

Robie Macauley was acquainted with three-time former Japanese Prime Minister Prince Fumimaro Konoe, to whom he presented a copy of The American Leviathan: The Republic in the Machine Age by Charles A Beard.

Robie Macauley was awarded the Legion of Merit for his work in detaining members of the Gestapo in Japan.

Robie Macauley completed his MFA at the University of Iowa in 1950 and spent the next three years at the Woman's College where he taught modern American literature and writing.

Robie Macauley received a Rockefeller Fellowship and during 1953 Cord Meyer offered him a position in the International Organizations Division of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Robie Macauley assisted in the publication of Quadrant magazine, an Australian literary journal that at the time had "an anticommunist thrust".

Robie Macauley later taught at the Harvard Extension School and during 1990 co-initiated and co-directed the Ploughshares International Writing Seminars, a summer program of the Emerson College European Center at Kasteel Well in the Netherlands.

Robie Macauley died of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in Boston on November 20,1995.

Robie Macauley co-authored a textbook on writing, Technique in Fiction, and co-authored a book on marriage counseling, The Seven Basic Quarrels of Marriage.

Robie Macauley edited America and Its Discontents together with Larzer Ziff.

Robie Macauley wrote a series of contemplative essays on writing, writers and literature which were published in Shenandoah, The Irish University Review, Transition, The Texas Quarterly, Ploughshares, and The Paris Review.