residing in North Hollywood and pursuing a film career, McCrorie tried adapting some narrative poetry for the screen. Then other friends and family suggested he try creating a novel first. Called Africa Dust, that work should be finished and looking for a publisher in 2017; if successful in that form, it should stand a better chance of pleasing a film producer in Los Angeles. Another friend, Al Alvarez, had meanwhile published Pondlife in 2013. Moved by its stories of healthy swimming in ponds north of London, McCrorie wrote Soundness: Stories of Good and Better Health from Childhood to Eighty. A memoir at times, a medical resource book often, the book now makes the rounds of literary agents. Works After a Cremation (poems), Thorp Springs Press, 1974 The Aeneid of Virgil (translation), Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., 1991 Needle Man (poems), Chestnut Hills Press, 1999 The Odyssey of Homer (translation), The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004 References 1936 births Living people American male poets American translators American academics of English literature Providence College faculty Latin–English translators Greek–English translators United States Navy sailors Assumption University (Worcester) alumni Villanova University alumni Brown University alumni American male non-fiction writers Translators of Homer Translators of Virgil