
A post-war novel set in 1919 which includes a gay English professor at Berkeley, the same school the author attended before serving in the Ambulance Corps in WWI.
Clarkson Crane (1894-1971) was born in Chicago. When the United States entered World War I, he joined many other UC Berkeley students in Section 586 of the U.S. Army Ambulance Corps. He later returned to France on a humble stipend to be a writer. The Western Shore (1925) was his first novel.