When White moved to France in 1983 through a prestigious GuggenheimFellowship for writing, he thought he was escaping this new disease, at least for a while.
Ms. von Rydingsvard earned an MFA from Columbia University in 1975, and since then has been recognized with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a GuggenheimFellowship and induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.