In the fall of 1953, Fred Exley headed for Manhattan, Joined Tulane's Eddie Price in forming a dazzling backfield for the New York Sure if he loved or hated him, but over time Gifford was to became an imaginaryĪlter ego, a rival he never could catch. Gifford was everything Exley was not: popular, a gifted athlete.
He spent his time in local saloons in the company of a vaguely literary crowd.įirst became aware of Frank Gifford. On campus, Fred regarded himself as "a leper." (Self-pity was an Exley hallmark.) Ignored by the golden haired sorority girls, "undistinguished" university, set in the splendor of the Southern California Then, following aīusted romance, he transferred to the University of Southern California, an After graduation,įred matriculated at an "undistinguished" local college. High school, he blew a key football game for illegal holding. His father was a star local athlete and barroom fighter.ĭisappointments came early-and easily-to Exley. The son of a telephone lineman for a local powerĬompany, Exley grew up in Watertown, New York, a dying industrial town close to Humdrum business of life." From, he meant, the travails of ordinary, workaday Poet, the prophet, the criminal.with those whose aims are insulated from the "For my heart," Exley wrote in his memoir, "will always be with the drunk, the "drunk," a "dreamer," as he described himself in recounting his doomed struggle Its author was a complete unknown: a "loser," a The book's originality immediately stood out from the manufactured best
In 1968 Harper & Row published A Fan's Notes, a fictional memoir by Frederick Exley.
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