The South Carolina Review Volume 50.2, Spring 2018
April 1, 2018
This number is for George William (Bill) Koon and Frank Louis Day, close friends who
were also Clemson’s first two managing editors of The South Carolina Review; may they
rest in peace. On August 2, 2017, Frank passed away after a long illness, followed by Bill,
on October 3, after a surprisingly short one. The near coincidence recalls the theme of
Bill’s address during the journal’s fortieth-anniversary celebration, “Parallel Lives,” as he
called it, after a book he liked by Plutarch. Considering their long association as fellow
editors, professors, and department heads, the lives of Bill and Frank were in many ways
coincident but parallel—their careers ran “along side by side” The South Carolina Review
(see 41.1 [Fall 2008]: 3-4).
