found: archiveswest.orbiscascade.org, July 12, 2021(Patricia Goedicke and Leonard Wallace Robinson papers, 1910-2006; Leonard Wallace Robinson (1912-1999) was born in Malden, Massachusetts; he graduated from Columbia University in 1935; over the next three decades, Robinson held a number of editorial positions, including editor-in-chief of Colliers magazine from 1956-1957 and executive editor for Rinehart, Holt, and Winston; Robinson also published a number of journalistic pieces for The New Yorker and The New York Times, as well as short stories appearing in Harper's and The New Yorker; in 1950 his short story "Ruin of the Soul" appeared in Prize Stories, the annual collection of O. Henry Award winning stories; amongst his early book length works are The Secret Service Chief, for which Robinson was a ghost writer, and The Assassin; he met Patricia Goedicke (1931-2006) in the summer of 1968; after moving in together, Goedicke taught English at Hunter College and Robinson taught Journalism at Columbia University; in 1971, they moved to San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico, and in 1981 they moved to Missoula, Montana; from 1971-1981, Robinson wrote a novel titled The Man Who Loved Beauty, which was published in 1976, as well as a number of poems that would appear in his first book of poetry, In the Whale; during their years in Missoula, Robinson published two books of poetry: In the Whale in 1983 and Now and Zen, which was published posthumously in 2005; he died on April 30, 1999)
