Dick Blakeslee
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Richard C. Blakeslee (died April 7, 2000, Santa Barbara, California) was an American professor of English who is best known as the author of the folk song "Passing Through", which was covered by Leonard Cohen on his album Live Songs. Blakeslee wrote "Passing Through" while a student at the University of Chicago in the 1940s. He later became a professor and taught at Northwestern University, Wisconsin State College, and San Fernando Valley State College, where he remained until his 1992 retirement. He was 78 at the time of his death.
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