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Ianthe and Richard Brautigan

Photo by Edmund Shea

This is a crop of a bigger photograph (Michaela Clark LeGrand has been edited out, I don’t know who did it or where this version comes from). The original photo was used on the cover for the collection of Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, In Watermelon Sugar, New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1969 - and can be seen here).

“I just wanted to make sure that certain elements of him were remembered correctly because when you’re writing a memoir, and we’re talking about using fictive elements, you have a responsibility to the heart of the thing that you’re trying to share. And I was trying to do a lot of things in that memoir, but one of them was sharing my dad.”

from an interview with Ianthe Brautigan about creativity and about her book

You Can’t Catch Death - A Daughter’s Memoir