In My Father's Footsteps: A MemoirWilliam Matthews was a much admired, award winning poet and teacher who lived hard and died suddenly in 1997 at the age of fifty five. He was a jazz fan, a wit and raconteur, a connoisseur of fine food and wine, and a thrice married womanizer. This clear eyed, often wryly funny memoir pays homage to a charismatic father as the son struggles to step out from his considerable shadow. In examining his father's death (and life), Sebastian Matthews