John Thorndike (born November 6, 1942, in New York City) is an American writer.
Thorndike lives in Athens, Ohio. He grew up in Westport, Connecticut, graduated from Deerfield Academy in 1960, and from Harvard in 1964, took an MA in English from Columbia in 1966, and spent two years in El Salvador in the Peace Corps. After seven years in Latin America, he returned to the U.S., settled in Ohio and farmed for ten years. [1]
His first book was the novel Anna Delaney’s Child, about a woman whose nine-year-old son dies in a car crash. [2]
His second novel was The Potato Baron, about the owner of a large potato farm in northern Maine who must choose between his wife—who wants to live somewhere other than Aroostook County—and the life he loves on his ancestral land.
Thorndike’s third book was a memoir, Another Way Home, about raising his son after his wife became schizophrenic.
His next book, The Last of His Mind: A Year in The Shadow of Alzheimer’s, was published by Swallow Press, a division of Ohio University Press, in October 2009. It is a memoir of the year he spent looking after his father, Joseph J. Thorndike—the managing editor of Life from 1946–49 and a founder of American Heritage and Horizon magazines—as he lost his memory, language, self-awareness, and ultimately his life. [3]
His fifth book, A Hundred Fires in Cuba, was published in 2018 by Beck & Branch. Kirkus gave it a starred review. It's a historical novel that opens in 1959 in Havana, where a young American photographer must choose between her stable Cuban husband and her first love, Camilo Cienfuegos, the father of her child and now a hero of the Cuban Revolution.
Christopher Riche Evans was a British psychologist, computer scientist, and author.
Enki Bilal is a French comic book creator, comics artist and film director.
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est: The Steersman Handbook, Charts of the Coming Decade of Conflict is a work of science fiction cast as a nonfictional study. Its author, credited as L. Clark Stevens, usually went by the name Leslie Stevens. Stevens has a long list of credits in the entertainment industry, having worked on, among other productions, The Outer Limits. The book was published in paperback in 1970, and reprinted in 1971.
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