From Spring 2003 Explore This Issue on Teacher: The One Who Made the Difference by Mark Edmundson By Sanford Pinsker From the Spring 2003 Issue ← on It Wasn’t All Dancing and Other Stories by Mary Ward Brown → Modern Writers, Modern Lives (on Charles Dickens by Jane Smiley; Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet by Elaine Feinstein; Iris Murdoch: A Life by Peter J. Conradi; Flannery O’Connor: A Life by Jean W. Cash; Peter Taylor: A Writer’s Life by Hubert H. McAlexander; and Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston by Valerie Boyd)