![]() With obsessive care, he poured himself into writing his books and teaching younger writers. Gardner clearly had better luck away from machinery, and he thankfully spent enough time at desks and in classrooms to fashion an illustrious career as a writer and writing teacher. The family buried his remains next to Gilbert near their childhood home. His motorcycle didn’t quite make a curve in the highway near his home in Susquehanna County, Penn. In 1982, another machine betrayed Gardner, age 49 and just a few weeks from his third marriage. In 1945, just a boy on the family farm in upstate New York, Gardner sat at the wheel of a tractor that somehow dragged a cultivator over his younger brother, Gilbert, and killed him. ![]() ![]() New England writer John Gardner, however, seemed cursed by machines. ![]() The world of loud and deadly machines seems far removed. They lecture in classrooms, retreat to workshops in peaceful settings. ![]()
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