with the poet, as they had come from similar backgrounds and had created themselves as writers. While living in Seattle and teaching at the University of Washington, in the spring of 1963 Theodore Roethke introduced his friend Seager by telephone to poet and novelist James Dickey, who was in the city for a reading. Dickey told Seager that his novel Amos Berry was a principal reason why Dickey had pursued poetry. Writing was not part of his background, but he had been inspired by Charles Berry, the son in the novel, who persisted at working at poetry. Dickey felt that Seager's talent had not been sufficiently recognized by the public or critics. Personal life Seager married and had two daughters. He won a Fulbright Fellowship that him to take his family to travel to France for his research. He and his family lived in Tecumseh, Michigan. He died there of lung cancer in 1968. Bibliography Novels Equinox. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1943. The Inheritance. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948 Amos Berry. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953. Hilda Manning. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956 Death of Anger. New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1960. Short stories A Frieze of Girls: Memoirs as Fiction. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964 The Old Man of the Mountain. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950 Nonfiction The Glass House: The Life of Theodore Roethke. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968 (First Edition) The Glass House: The Life of Theodore Roethke. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991 (Reprint Edition including introduction by poetDonald Hall) They Worked for a Better World. New York: Macmillan, 1939. Translation Stendhal. Memoirs of a Tourist. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1962. References Further reading Part 1, Part 2 External links "Reintroducing Allan Seager: an essay by Charles Baxter", and a selected chapter from A Frieze of Girls, McSweeney's, Guide to the Allan Seager Papers, The Bancroft Library 20th-century American novelists American male novelists Deaths from lung cancer Writers from Ann Arbor, Michigan University of Michigan alumni 1906 births 1968 deaths Deaths from cancer in Michigan University of Michigan faculty American male short story writers 20th-century American short story writers 20th-century American male writers Novelists from Michigan