at a writers workshop in Akron and once more at restaurant in Akron and once in Cleveland at someones party. Spoke to him about the writers market and superficially about local stuff. Seemed like a good person. He was closer to another friend of mine and then I learned he'd gone off to California.
The suicide doesn't jibe with who I knew (and not really all that well), but he was also I thought a pretty sensitive/deep person.
My friend Tom, a comedy writer, had met pretty regularly with him over a period of a year or so around writing and the writers market. Anyone who would give that kind of time to a struggling writer like Tom was at that time had to be a decent person.
Remember this one? Happened right after I moved to Chicago:
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1997-01-09/news/9701080914_1_writer-pockets-manuscript
Mystery Writer Found Dead Wrote About Similar Scene
OTHER NEWS TO NOTE - MIDWEST
January 9, 1997
CHICAGO — Mystery writer Eugene Izzi, whose body was found hanging from his office window last month, wrote about a heroic escape from a similar predicament in an unpublished manuscript, a newspaper reported Wednesday. Citing police sources, the Chicago Tribune said computer discs in the 43-year-old writer's pockets held an 800-page manuscript containing tantalizing details that matched the scene of his death. His body was found Dec. 7 hanging from a rope outside the window of his high-rise downtown office. He was wearing a bulletproof vest and had a can of chemical Mace in his pockets.
It was listed as a suicide and a group of investigative reporters looked into it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Izzi
This is good little article:
https://www.historicmysteries.com/eugene-izzi/
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