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“Allen's first memoir enumerates topics that were secrets in the Shawn household”
Analyzed on 2026-10-30T09:42:39+00:00 · Last updated 2026-10-30
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In his first memoir, “Wish I Could Be There” (2007), Allen, the twin of a sister, Mary Shawn, who has autism and was institutionalized, enumerates the various topics, beyond the affair, that were either secrets or unmentionable in the Shawn household: that they were Jewish, and also universally short (Wallace is 5-foot-2); that both parents saw psychiatrists; that they worried about money (their father felt trapped by his job, which he held from 1952 to 1987, but also was loath to ever ask for a raise).
Extracted from: Is Wallace Shawn the Only Avant-Garde Artist Who Gets Stopped in Times Square? , The New York Times
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