DANIEL STERN

Daniel Stern, former fellow in the Wesleyan Center for the Humanities, the Boynton Visiting Professor in Creative Writing in the College of Letters, and a Visiting Professor in Letters and English died Jan. 24, 2007, of complications following heart surgery. He was 79. The Cullen Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Houston, he joined its creative writing program in 1992. He wrote nine novels, five short-story collections, several plays and screenplays, and more than 100 essays and reviews. Stern received numerous awards, including the International Prix du Souvenir and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award in Literature. He was also a cellist and had played with jazz musician Charlie Parker as well as with the Indianapolis Symphony. He is survived by his wife, Gloria Stern, one son, and two grandchildren.