Lying in Bed

When the lustful but impotent professor-novelist Lee Youngdahl encounters the beautiful Mariolena Sunwall, a student in his writing class, he learns of a novel she's eager to have published and decides he can help her land a book contract with one of New York's most prestigious publishing houses. But he has his own agenda and some extracurricular activities in mind. Working for Mariolena gives him the inspiration he needs to break out of his paralyzing writer's block, but that's not all he's hoping to recover from. While his wife Beth is away visiting their children on a seven-city tour, Youngdahl is determined to find a cure for his impotence and revisit his old Don Juan days.
Born on November 19, 1922 in Mount Vernon, New York, Mark Harris received a doctorate in American studies at the University of Minnesota in 1956. He has taught in the language arts departments of San Francisco State College, Purdue University, the California Institute of the Arts, Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles, the University of Southern California, and the University of Pittsburgh. Currently, he is professor of English at Arizona State University, Tempe. Mark Harris is a member of the Authors Guild, the Writers Guild of America, and the Dramatists Guild. He has written numerous novels, nonfiction works, dramatic works, articles, reviews, and essays. Mark Harris married the former Josephine Horen, and they have three children: Hester Jill, Anthony Wynn, and Henry Adam.