A Rocker and a Revered Author Bond for a Cause

"Dr. Coles, 73, who has been on the Harvard faculty for nearly three decades, and Mr. Springsteen, 53, who dropped out of Ocean County Community College in Toms River, N.J., have quietly been friends for nearly seven years. Since discovering a shared admiration for the novelist Walker Percy, they have engaged in extended conversations about other chroniclers of the American soul, like James Agee, William Carlos Williams, Flannery O'Connor and Ralph Ellison."

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