​FAMOUS PEOPLE I HAVE KNOWN

# 18 ​FAMOUS PEOPLE I HAVE KNOWN

​Ed McClanahan (1932): Famous People I Have Known
Ed McClanahan is a native of Bracken County, Ky., and was educated at Miami of Ohio, the University of Kentucky and Stanford University, where he was a Stegner Fellow in the Creative Writing Program.  He studied with such writers as Wendell Berry, Ken Kesey, Larry McMurtry, and Tom Wolfe, some of whom became members of the group “The Merry Pranksters” that experimented with psychedelic drugs in the 1960’s and 1970’s.  McClanahan has taught English and creative writing at various universities, including Oregon State University, Stanford, The University of Montana, and UK.  His 2003 memoir, Famous People I have Known, features an entourage of writers, strippers, hippies, barkeepers, and entertainers such as Carlos Toadvine, a.k.a. Little Enis, who billed himself as the “All-American Left-Handed Upside-down Guitar Player.”