>I have read that he
>kept two circles of friends, one circle from the
>legal and insurance worlds and the other circle
>from the literary world. Not too surprisingly,
>those two circles did not intersect.
It's been a long time since I kept up on Stevens scholarship, but as I recall he made sure they didn't intersect. Most of his insurance colleagues had no idea that he even wrote poetry, much less that he was one of the all-time greats.
Doug