


Fenkl lost the library book and his mother had to pay for it.

Unfortunately, this experience is also memorable to him because it is linked to a certain degree of trauma. "I have very vivid recollections of it and I remember thinking that it was the most amazing thing," he recalls. P ROFILE (from the Vassar College Spectator)Īs Heinz Insu Fenkl, an English professor at Vassar, puts it, "My engagement with Literature has been a very odd one." Sitting in his third floor attic-like office in Sanders, he twists his chair slightly as he explains the beginnings of his passion for the written word.įenkl was about seven years old and still living in Korea when he read his first book which he fell in love with immediately.
