Donaldson spent part of his youth in India , where his father , a medical missionary , worked with lepers . Donaldson attended what is now the Kodaikanal International School . He was attending Kent State University as a graduate student at the time of the Kent State shootings on May 4 , 1970 . Though he was not on campus at the time of the shootings , his apartment was one and a half blocks away , and he was forced to live under martial law for three days afterwards . Donaldson does not like to discuss the incident , as he finds the memories disturbing
Kent State shootings
Kent State shootings
Stephen R. Donaldson