PUBLISHED BOOKS

My fourth book, published by Texas Review Press, 2012, won the 2011 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize

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The adventurous, resourceful 12 year-old heroine of my young adult novel was inspired by my daughter.

In 1970, I was asked to write a novel about the phenomenon that people were calling the Black Revolution, which was especially active in the Bay Area, home of the Black Panthers. It was an interesting experience. People who were closer to it than I said that I captured it well.

My first novel was published in hardcover and paperback in both the United States and Great Britain and in two hardcover editions in Germany. It also was bought by Warner Brothers to be a movie starring Nathalie Wood. A script was written but the movie was not made.

The Night Action. originally published in 1966, has just been republished in an e-edition by Automat Press with a new author's introduction. It is available now from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, iTunes, Kobo, and Scribd.
The book has been called "the last great novel in the canon of Beat literature. It can be seen as the link between Beat culture and the more politically-conscious hippie culture of the late-60s and early-70s. The novel careens around the night spots of San Francisco's North Beach and the words seem to fly off the page in the style of Tom Wolfe or the lyrics of Tom  Waits. Not only was it the last novel of an era, The Night Action serves as an epitaph of the Beat Generation in the same way The Great Gatsby was of the Jazz Era."