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Lawrence "Ren" Weschler is the author of more than 15 books of nonfiction including Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees, Vermeer in Bosnia, and Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder. He is at work on a memoir of his years, back in the early 1980s, of being a beanpole Sancho to Oliver Sacks's capacious Quixote.
Portrait by Tony Kearney
Lawrence Weschler worked in the Banks studio.
Banks, an ell on the north end of the Lodge dormitory, was first used as an artist’s studio in 1970. Since then, it has played host to an extraordinary list of writers working in several disciplines. In all seasons, Fellows have enjoyed the pastoral view through the French doors facing a field…