William "Bill" Hart (amazon.com/author/williamjhart) was a Kansas transplant to the West Coast. For 30 years he taught college writing courses in Los Angeles, but his formative years were spent in Wichita, KS. His poetry and fiction appeared in several hundred literary journals, commercial magazines, newspapers, and anthologies. His fourteen books include a memoir of his teenage years, Roller Rink Starlight, available in Wichita bookstores and public libraries. He also wrote documentaries with his filmmaker wife Jayasri (Joyce) Hart (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3688546/), two of which aired nationally on PBS, won awards, and have been archived at the Library of Congress.
Bill always acknowledged that the seed of his creativity germinated at KU Lawrence and Wichita State, but was nurtured by his years on the assembly line at Cessna Aircraft and atop grain elevators in Wichita. The people he knew, both locals and journeymen, form the core of his Creative Non-fiction collection of published and unpublished work Better Pack A Lunch: Wichita Stories. This is what he was working on when he passed away.
Jayasri would like to complete that task and then collect all of Bill's work to continue distribution from one platform.
Bill always acknowledged that the seed of his creativity germinated at KU Lawrence and Wichita State, but was nurtured by his years on the assembly line at Cessna Aircraft and atop grain elevators in Wichita. The people he knew, both locals and journeymen, form the core of his Creative Non-fiction collection of published and unpublished work Better Pack A Lunch: Wichita Stories. This is what he was working on when he passed away.
Jayasri would like to complete that task and then collect all of Bill's work to continue distribution from one platform.
Though she is based in California, I'm sure the KAC membership will support her in honoring Bill's memory as a Kansas-bred writer. Welcome, Joyce!
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