Harvey Mudd
Harvey Mudd is an American poet, writer and painter who left the U.S. for France in 2005 after becoming disillusioned with American culture and politics.
His new memoir recounts the events and influences — from a prestigious family with ancestry that goes back to the first generation of American settlers in 1630 to the modern day — that formed the values and historical reference that led to his self-imposed exile.
It is also an experiment in “lean” autobiography, a “life” stripped of the romantic entanglements, but which includes an examination of a severely dysfunctional birth family and the resulting personal trials that shaped his character.
Mr. Mudd watches the Obama presidency with hope, but lives most of the year in Paris.
