 L'Heureux's career as a priest, which included time as a graduate student in English at Harvard and a stint as a staff editor at "The Atlantic Monthly", was fairly conventional for an unconventional time.L'Heureux left the priesthood and was laicized in 1971; that year he also married Joan Polston, the dedicatee of most of his subsequent books.He wrote in Picnic in Babylon, "I became a Jesuit, paradoxically, on the grounds of coldest reason