Famous People I’ve Met
The following are famous people I’ve met at various times (and talked to, sometimes at length, not just seen in concert or passing in the distance). I’ll add more as I think of them (or meet them). See also “Writers I’ve Studied With.”
Maya Angelou
Anthony Hopkins
Little Richard
The Queen of England
Joe DiMaggio
John Cage
Pierre Trudeau
Pico Iyer
Douglas Adams
Katie Couric
Thor Heyerdahl
Joyce Carol Oates
Myra Cohn Livingston
Bob Taft (former governor of Ohio) and his wife Hope
Bill Gates
Steve Ballmer
Jim Sinegal
Hal Holbrook
Bobby Hull
Hans Gmoser (inventor of helicopter skiing) +
Mike Wiegele (helicopter skiing guru)
Phil Mayer (Olympic skiing gold medalist)
David Crosby
Stephen Stills
Graham Nash
Lots of well-known poets, such as Mary Oliver, Czeslaw Milosz, Billy Collins, W. S. Merwin, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Hass, Mark Doty, Stephen Spender, Sonia Sanchez, Dana Gioia, Jack Prelutsky, and dozens more