His freshman year roommate at Dartmouth was Stephen Geller, the screenwriter of Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) and The Valachi Papers (1972).
Yale School of Drama, 1962-1963 (no degree).
Had written a number of screenplays that were sadly never produced, including a script he had written for Roger Corman in 1980 called "Disc Jockey".
Stanford University, (Stegner Fellow) 1967-1968.
Dartmouth College, B.A. 1962.
Had moved to Livingston, MT in 1971 after graduating from Dartmouth University. He became great friends with fellow residents Warren Oates, Jimmy Buffett, and Thomas McGuane.
He was the long suffering neighbor of author Richard Brautigan (about whom he wrote an extensive biography-Jubilee Hitchhiker) who often came to the Hjortaberg home drunk.