Summary Of 'The Bill From My Father' By Edarnard Cooper

ernard Cooper is the author of 6 books, including the award-winning Maps to Anywhere, A Clack of Tiny Sparks: Remembrances of a Gay Boyhood, Truth Serum, A Year of Rhymes, Guess Again, and most recently The Bill from My Father: A Memoir. Cooper is art critic for the Los Angeles Times and frequently contributes to The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Nerve, The Paris Review, and five previous editions of The Best American Essays. His work has received the PEN/Hemingway Award, the O. Henry Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Getty Museum. He currently teaches at Scripps College in Los Angeles, California, where he lives.Raised by a Victorian grandfather who believed that children