autobiography, Weeds in Bloom: Autobiography of an Ordinary Man, composed of a series of vignettes of various times, places, and people in his life. Peck also authored three books on the craft of writing as well as giving workshops and occasionally teaching writing both at Rollins and at Manhattanville College. He served as Director of Rollins College Writers Conference, 1977–1982. Peck's novels won numerous awards throughout his career, including the Mark Twain Readers Award in 1981 for Soup for President, and inclusion in the American Library Association's Best Books for Young Adults for A Day No Pigs Would Die in 1973. While A Day No Pigs Would Die is certainly Peck's most famous work, and has been published in over 40 countries, it has also been the target of censorship due to some of its graphic descriptions. Rights to the book, as well as his novel Millie's Boy, were purchased by Twentieth Century Fox for film adaptations, but were never produced. Personal life In 1958 Peck married Dorothy Anne Houston, a Columbia University graduate and librarian, and they were the parents of two children: Christopher who was born in 1968, and Anne born in 1971. Christopher died July 31, 2011, at the age of 43. Fred Rogers, a classmate at Rollins College, was an usher at the Peck's wedding and, according to Peck, the godfather to his children. Robert and Dorothy divorced in 1994. His second marriage was to Sharon "Sam" Michael in 1995. In 1984, Peck was sued by Mary Jo Wardlaw, an Erskine College student, for outrageous conduct causing severe emotional distress and slander, for comments he made during a convocation speech at the college. The day before the speech, Wardlaw had failed to pick up Peck from the airport. Upset at having been made to wait, Peck pointed to Wardlaw during his speech and referred to her as "Mary Jo Warthog" or "Warthog." As the court noted, He likened her to a fictitious character in his books called "Janice," who he said was the "bully of his childhood." He described "Janice" as "built like a garbage truck" with "fists like cannonballs" and said she walked hunched over with her fists dangling before her so her left arm swung over her left leg and her right arm swung over her right leg. He said Mary Jo Wardlaw was late to the airport because she walked like "Janice." He