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The author of A Far Place

1945

Born in New York City in 1927, the son of a sculptor and an architect who were admirers of the arts above all else, Fuller chose from an early age to explore the world more widely. Before enlisting in the Navy at seventeen he had worked summer jobs in a garage and canvas products factory, and before graduating from Harvard in 1951 he had been a department store salesman, a circus roustabout, and a wire service reporter. In the course of the 1950’s he was a Texaco marketer in West Africa, wrote his first novel in Paris, and, returning to New York, became a teacher of writing and an Editor of the Paris Review. He moved to California in 1961 to teach at Stanford and later co-founded the annual Community of Writers at Squaw Valley with Oakley Hall, and taught at other west coast institutions.

He is the father of three and now lives in the northern Marin County town of Tomales.