Dave Stallworth: ‘I’m One Lucky Man,’ 1970

[The writing life has been very good to Jay Neugeboren, now in his 80s. He’s won prizes for his  fiction, earned critical acclaim for his non-fiction, and received awards for his screenplays. He would also spend 30 years as a professor and writer in residence at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

But in the late 1960s, the Brooklyn-born Neugebor…