Robb Forman Dew (October 26, 1946 – May 22, 2020) was an American writer known for fiction that dealt sensitively with the emotions of daily life and the ties that bind people together as families.
Growing up, Dew divided her time between Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where her father had his medical practice,[3] and Gambier, where she stayed with her grandparents.
In Gambier, she found herself surrounded by poets and writers connected with the Kenyon Review, as well as by friends, colleagues, and former students of her grandfather.
[5] The book‘s title was originally graffiti on a railroad bridge (now demolished), just south of Centerburg, Ohio.
She taught at the Iowa Writer's Workshop, received a Guggenheim fellowship, and was awarded an honorary degree by Kenyon College in 2007.