221:, Keyes wrote, âIâm often asked why I write so often about ânegativeâ subjects: tensions between fathers and sons, adolescent angst, time pressure. My answer is that exploring such topics on paper helps me get rid of them. Writing can be wonderful therapy, and cheap at the price. At the very least, you eventually get bored by thinking about anxious topics and want to move on.â
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with Muriel Keyes, his wife of more than half a century, who is a retired health care advocate and college administrator. Their sons David and Scott also live in
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introduced their biography of Keyes by writing, âIn his books Ralph Keyes explores obstacles ranging from learning how to deal with loneliness in an increasingly dehumanized and mobile society to the obvious and subtle difficulties associated with being unusually tall or short. Relying on statistical
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entry about him, Keyes said that he enjoyed researching his books as much as writing them. As for his prose style, he added, "The longer I write, the simpler I'd like my writing to be: a well cleaned piece of glass through which the reader can see clearly to the content inside. The ideal would be
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information, results from questionnaires, and comments obtained during personal interviews, Keyes blends a touch of humor and occasional sadness with his factual findings to come up with highly readable and entertaining studies of the insecurities troubling countless
American adults.â
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prose so transparent that readers wouldn't even be aware of my fingers at the keyboard. The hardest work of writing, I find, is concealing how much effort it takes, and beating down the urge to show off."
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was introduced with the observation that, when asked about their favorite books on the craft of writing, other authors they talked to âAlmost without exception, author Ralph Keyesâ books top their list.â
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New York: Little, Brown, 1976; New York: Warner Books, 1976.
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