This Dust of Words, an hour-long documentary about ELIZABETH WILTSEE, a Stanford alumna whose promise as an aspiring writer took a tragic turn, will be featured this Sunday, March 28, at 6 p.m. on KQED-TV’S Truly CA. The documentary by Bill Rose is inspired by a memoir of Wiltsee by JOHN FELSTINER, professor emeritus of English at Stanford. Wiltsee, who graduated from Stanford in 1970 with a bachelor’s degree in English, wrote her senior thesis on Samuel Beckett. At the time of her death at 50, she was homeless. Felstiner figures as a narrator, and parts of the film take place on the Farm.
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