Birds fascinated my father. I could never quite understand why. Not until he died. My mother dumped his bird-watching books on me. I knew then what the scientist in him saw when he watched birds in their natural habitat: great variety, environmental adaptations, the living proof of Charles Darwin’s theory … Read More
In the 2000 film, Finding Forrester, Sean Connery played the fictitious author William Forrester, described by the Washington Post as “a cross between Howard Hughes and J.D. Salinger.” In the movie, Forrester supposedly wrote the great American novel Avalon Landing, his first and only book, and one that took the … Read More
Recent feedback to a series of stories I shared on Facebook made me lean back in my chair and have a good mull-over. “I especially enjoy the humanity that comes through your stories….” Oh? I’ve read several commentaries about how over-zealous English professors and critics can imbue a story … Read More
I’ll admit it, I spend a lot of time compiling bibliographies. For me, there’s something inherently satisfying about seeing a list of references all lined up, like bunches of beautiful flowers waiting to be picked. Research, for both fiction and nonfiction, requires bibliographies. To recreate past worlds, as in historical … Read More
