Buechner, Frederick, 1926-....

Born July 11, 1926, Buechner was named for his father, Carl Frederick Buechner. After his father's death, when Buechner was ten, the famiy moved frequently. In 1941 Buechner was sent to the Lawrenceville School, where he built a lasting friendship with James Merrill. Buechner, after his graduation from Lawrenceville in 1943, attended Princeton University. His education there was interrupted by his draft into the army. He later returned to Princeton to graduate in 1947. In 1950 he published his Pulizter Prize winning book, A Long Day's Dying, which he began in his senior year at Princeton. Buechner later attended Union Theological Seminary, afterwhich he was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry.