D. Keith Mano

Mano attended New York's Trinity School (where, he claimed, he converted to Episcopalianism in order to be eligible for a prize) He subsequently received a Kellett Fellowship Upon returning to the United States, he performed with the National Shakespeare Company while also managing his family's construction business. ==Writing==

Mano's first novel, ''Bishop's Progress'', was published in 1968. His next five novels were published one per year until 1973; Jeffrey Hart noted that Mano's seventh novel, Take Five, took nine years to write — which, in Hart's assessment, "wrecked [Mano] as a commercial possibility". where he was listed on the masthead; During the 1980s, he began writing for television, and produced scripts for the television series Monsters and LA Law he also wrote the episode of St. Elsewhere for which Steve Allen was nominated for the 1987 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. ==Personal life==

Mano had two sons from his first marriage to Jo McArthur., and was married later to actress Laurie Kennedy. During the 1970s he abandoned Episcopalianism for a variety of reasons, reportedly including his refusal to be given the Eucharist by a woman. He subsequently joined the Eastern Orthodox Church. During the mid-1990s, Mano developed Parkinson's disease. ==Publications==

• ''Bishop's Progress : A Novel'' (Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1968) • Horn (Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1969) • War Is Heaven! (Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1970) • Death and Life of Harry Goth (New York : Knopf, 1971) • Proselytizer (New York : Knopf, 1972) • Bridge (Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1973) • Take Five (Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1982) • Topless (New York : Random House, 1991) • The Fergus Dialogues: A Meditation on the Gender of Christ (International Scholars Publications, 1998) ==References==