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Gender
Male
Birthday
1950
Location
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Type of Writer
"Pantser" or "plotter"? I definitely write by the seat of my pants. Outlines? I don't need no stinking outlines!
Writing Style
Always evolving.
Interests
My family, writing, mathematics, reading, movies, my cat.
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Favorite Genres
Speculative fiction, mysteries
Favorite Books
I and Thou (Martin Buber), Frannie and Zooey (J.D. Salinger), The Old Man and the Sea, Hit Man (Lawrence Block), Have Spacesuit, Will Travel (Heinlein), Ringworld (Niven), The Brothers Karamazov, Ulysses (Joyce and Homer), The Waste Land...
Favorite Authors
Steinbeck, Hemingway, Updike, Lawrence Block, Dean Koontz, J.D. Salinger, Robert Heinlein, Larry Niven
Favorite Poets
Poe, T.S. Eliot, Whitman, Stephen Crane, Ginsberg
Favorite Quote
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” — Pablo Picasso
Favorite Music
Adagio for Strings, Samuel Barber
Favorite Movies
Vertigo, North by Northwest, Bladerunner, Twelve Monkeys, Inception, Mulholland Drive (David Lynch version)
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