His father, Vincent, took him to La Coupole in Paris and, after sitting on the terrace for a while, walked off and forgot him. It was the perfect start in life for a writer.
Source: On Michael Korda, in review of Charmed Lives, Random House 79, in NY Times, 3 Nov 79
-- Anatole Broyard, (Jul 16 1920-1990), US literary critic; He was an American literary critic for The New York Times.