Jack's Blog

I found this on the Internet today. It seems to add some info to the continuing story of Tristan Egolf.

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"There really is a very interesting only-in-America backstory about Tristan Egolf's
life and suicide, it now turns out after reviewing material on the
Internet, from Google searches to Yahoo windows, and even though the
American media has
still not reported much on this after he killed himself earlier in the
year, [May 7, 2005], here is some more information. This is all
meant as a healing.

According to Internet searches, Tristan Egolf was the biological son of the
writer and journalist
Brad Evans, and his paternal grandfather is a man named Warren "Bing"
Evans...of WWII
''Darby's Rangers''. He is still alive.

Earlier reports mentioned that Tristan's natural
father was a journalist in Europe when Tristian was born there, in Spain in fact.

Brad Evans tragically committed suicide himself, in 1987...

.....Brad Evans was also a brilliant
writer (Norman Mailer is said to have once sent him a fan letter about Evans' published short
stories in print somewhere), or that....he also worked as a roving political campaign manager
and newspaper commentary writer for
some ultra-right-wing operatives, so much so that he incurred the wrath
of some West Coast liberals and progressives.

According to Internet sources, Tristan's father Mr. Brad Evans was a
brawny 6'6" blond, bearded Viking/Hemingwayesque macho man (think
running
with the bulls in Pamplona, and stuff like that, all true, they say), and he was
also an international traveller adventurer (including
rebuilding post-earthquake villages in Guatemala as a volunteer with Catholic
charities). Brad Evans once personally met with PLO leader Yassir
Arafat during the early 1980s
in Beirut, perhaps for a news interview.

In addition, Tristan's ''godfather '' when he was born was none other than William F. Buckley, the famous
conservative writer and publisher of The National Reviewa rightwing monthly magazine -- Brad Evans
was once a close friend of Willim F. Buckley. Evans was a speechwriter for Nixon and Agnew at the time.

In addition, according to Internet websites, "California" magazine
published two articles about Brad Evans' flamboyant, gifted life and
personal style during the early-mid-1980s, when he was working as a
campaign manager for ultra-rightwing Senator John Schmitz of Orange
County.
Richard Trainor was the reporter who covered Evans, and the pieces he
wrote were high drama, indeed. In fact, they were eerily
prognosticative, one might say, upon reading them now.

Both father and son were apparently sufferers of
depression, and this was never explained in the media before.


Of course, like all people, fans everywhere were saddened by Tristan's gruesome choice of
exit-strategies. May he rest in eternal peace, and may
there be closure all around, among Tristan's many fans and readers,
among his publishers both in Europe and in the USA, and among literary
critics and reviewers around the world. And, of course, for his
surviving family members, mother, father, sister, daughter Orly, Orly's mom Karla, half-brother, grandparents, all...... There is no doubt that
Tristan Egolf was loved by many."

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I found this info interesting. Maybe the national media will pick up on it.