Walter Sullivan (novelist)

He published a number of works and was an English professor at Vanderbilt University for more than fifty years.

His father died three months after he was born, and Walter, an only child, spent his childhood living with his mother and various aunts, uncles, and grandparents.

"We [the members of the FSW] believed that language could accurately communicate an author's intentions and that truth or an aspect thereof was available to those who were sufficiently gifted to find it.

[7] An Episcopalian, he became disenchanted with the direction the Church was taking, and helped form the Society for the Preservation of the Book of Common Prayer in the 1960s.

[8] He and Jane had a daughter, Pamela (Pam), and two sons, Walter Laurence Jr. (Larry) and John.