Two years later Doctor Crowley got a better job­ – head of the student infirmary at Notre Dame College.  The children went to various Catholic grade and high schools in South Bend.  John taught himself to write blank verse, composed the beginnings of tragedies, and planned for a career in the theater.  He went to Indiana University, where he dropped that idea, majored in English, and wrote poetry. As soon as his classes were done and his summer job in the Art Department ended, he went to New York City. There he planned to make films, wrote screenplays that were not produced, and began working on  documentary films, mostly historical, i.e. using film and photographs from the past. He also began writing novels, beginning with a science fiction tale (The Deep 1975)and sold it to a publisher for the sum of $1500.  He then sold the same publisher another (Beasts, 1977).  But he had also begun writing a much larger and odder work, which would not be finished for ten years. By then he had moved to western Massachusetts.  Little, Big was published in 1981. In the Berkshires he met a woman he hired, on their first date, to do research for him on a documentary.  After some years of friendship, courtship, collaboration, they married and had twin daughters; as of this writing they are thirty years old.  In 1992, through the intervention of Yale professors who had come to admire his work, he got a job teaching Creative Writing  as an adjunct and later a half-time instructor, from which eminence he will retire in the spring of 2018. Meanwhile he continued to write books and stories, all of which will be displayed and described on other pages of this site.