Refugee from Waspdom

Spalding Gray in about 1980.

“I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be guided into the right way after Ivy League college and onward and upward. And it rejected me, I rejected it, and I ended up as a kind of refugee, really.’’

Spalding Gray (1941-2004), American actor, novelist, playwright, screenwriter and performance artist. He grew up in Barrington. He died by suicide.