The chairman of the Communications Department of the UW-Madison Division of Continuing Studies in 1990 was Barry Orton. It was Orton who gave the OK for his colleague Christine DeSmet?s idea for the Writers? Institute, which next year will hold its 25th edition. Orton told me this week that Leonard was available ? at, get this, no charge ? in July 1990 because he was just starting a book tour for ?Get Shorty,” … Six weeks later, the tour over, Leonard wrote Orton a letter … All these years later, Orton, still a UW-Madison professor, has the letter framed in his office.
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