 where precious works of art by Andrew Wyeth were on permanent display. I found Nelia as glamorous as the setting. She worried that life in the fast lane might disrupt their happy family, two young sons and a new daughter, and she dazzled me by volunteering that William Faulkner had been the subject of her college thesis, and I began to think of the Bidens as the perfect all-American couple with an enviable future.