Show Steele Played I Hookey to Write Wilbur Daniel Steel author of ot The Shame Dance Just by Harpers says SIlS that he is pretty much the common or garden variety of person per per- son Ron anxious about the well welt being of ot othIs hi his family wife wire and two boys al alit always always al- al difficulty ways it ul losing I with everything hi his T income e and tax r returns having t He lie was born in Greensboro N. N C C.- C. O. O Henrys Henry's birthplace After Atter graduating grad grad- uain from the University of or Deir Det ver he concluded the stud study of art rt which was begun In early youth youth He lie studied art in Paris laris at the tue Academie Julien In e and Venice It was during that winter that he ho began begane to stories playing hooky o from 1 ede let cf y the e Academic to do it it He lie says they were pretty awful stuff The following tot fol lowing summer he drifted to Mass and has been there with longer or shorter hiatuses ever since The hiatuses the more Important Import import- ant ones have taken him to the West the coast cout of ot Ireland England England England Eng Eng- land and France to Bermuda and to north Africa Mr Steele contends that It Is harder for him to write than It la Is for anyone else In tn the world La Ia e and The Marriage in two of or tho the In The Shame Dance were voted the ho best storIes of the year ear by the tbt Jury Jur of ot the O. O Henry P Memorial The rho Shame g Pt h f rt Dance t the short etor from which tho the volume takes H It its title was se selected so- so by OBrien O'Brien In hU his Best Stories for mi |