JOHN L'HEUREUX

Thanks for your wonderful works. Poetic and vulnerable, I read your collection every Christmas - seems right! RIP and thanks once again.

Mr. L'Heureux, my English teacher at Fairfield Prep, a Jesuit
all male high school in Fairfield, CT. A demanding, exacting and memorable force in my freshman year. Nickname "Lash"
L"Heureux. May he rest in Peace!

My deepest sympathy to his family, I only heard this week. John and I grew up together on Granby Rd, So. Hadley so many years ago. Feels as if I have lost another brother even though we have not seen each other for many years.

Such a beautiful writer, I'm always glad to open my New Yorker and find that the week's story is one of John's. I read his short story "The Escape" in the magazine today. And then as I always do after completing one of their printed stories, I went to newyorker.com to find what I thought was going to be the author interview. Instead I found his essay explaining his own planned death this past April 22 and that the story I just read was semi-autobiographical piece about his experience with...