life West retired from teaching in 1995. In 2003, he had a stroke, his second, which his wife, Diane Ackerman, has written about in her book One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage and the Language of Healing. He died on 18 October 2015 at the age of 85 in Ithaca, New York, from pneumonia. He is survived by his sister, Sheila Forster, and perhaps by a daughter, Amanda, about whom he wrote but with whom he later lost touch. Works Long fiction A Quality of Mercy, 1961 Tenement of Clay, 1965 Alley Jaggers, 1966 I'm Expecting to Live Quite Soon, 1970 Caliban's Filibuster, 1971 Bela Lugosi's White Christmas, 1972 Colonel Mint, 1972 Gala, 1976 The Very Rich Hours of Count von Stauffenberg, 1980 Rat Man of Paris, 1986 The Place in Flowers Where Pollen Rests, 1988 Lord Byron's Doctor, 1989 The Women of Whitechapel and Jack the Ripper, 1991 Love's Mansion, 1992 The Tent of Orange Mist, 1995 Sporting with Amaryllis, 1996 Life With Swan, 1997 Terrestrials, 1997 OK: The Corral, the Earps and Doc Holliday, 2000 The Dry Danube: A Hitler Forgery, 2000 A Fifth of November, 2001 Cheops: A Cupboard for the Sun, 2002 The Immensity of the Here and Now: A Novel of 9.11, 2003 Short fiction The Universe and Other Fictions, 1988 Poetry Poems, 1952 The Spellbound Horses, 1960 The Snow Leopard, 1964 Alphabet Poetry Tea with Osiris, 2006 Non-fiction Books The Growth of the Novel: Eight Radio Talks as Heard on CBC University of the Air, 1959 Byron and the Spoiler's Art, 1960 – 2nd ed. 1992 I, Said the Sparrow, 1963 The Modern Novel, 1963 Robert Penn Warren, 1964 The Wine of Absurdity: Essays in Literature and Consolation, 1966 Words for a Deaf Daughter, 1969 Out of My Depths: A Swimmer in the Universe, 1983 Sheer Fiction, 1987 Portable People, 1990 Sheer Fiction, vol. 2, 1991 Sheer Fiction, vol. 3, 1994 James Ensor, 1991 My Mother's Music, 1996 A Stroke of Genius: Illness and Self-Discovery, 1995 The Secret Lives of Words, 2000 Master Class, Scenes From A Fiction Workshop, 2001 Oxford Days, 2002 Sheer Fiction, vol. 4, 2004 My Father's War, 2005 The Shadow Factory, 2008 Articles Edited text Byron: A Collection of Critical Essays (Twentieth Century Views series), 1963 References Works cited Further reading Cyclopedia of World Authors, 3rd Ed. Vol. 5, Sim-Z. "Paul West". pp 2137–2138. External links "Word