Irvin Faust began writing late in life but his literary career has been productive since that late start. He works by day as a high school guidance counselor in Garden City, Long Island, and at night as a writer of fiction in New York City. He earned an Ed.D. at Columbia University in 1960, and since 1964 he has published six volumes of fiction; he is currently at work on a novel with "a black hero." While Faust stated in 1977 that each of his careers was a therapeutic rest from the other, there are obvious relationships between his writing and counseling endeavors. For example, Faust's first published work, his revised dissertation, was Entering Angel's World (1963); it is a professional study of the interaction between the character and environment of adolescents of minority background. His first book of fiction, Roar Lion Roar (1965), contains several short stories about adolescents from similar...