John Darling (writer)
John Darling is an American author. He has written and published many short stories, poems, and magazine articles.
His first publication, a short story titled Stigmire, details the humiliation of welfare mothers. It appeared in the May 1976 issue of Journal of Mental Health published by the Arizona State Hospital.
His lone play, Stage Directions, has been produced in the United States, Canada, and most recently at the Soho Theatre in London, England, on October 3, 2012.
Many of his short fiction and non-fiction works have been collected in anthologies.
- On Borrowed Time contains ten mysteries revolving around a hard boiled private eye named Detective Anderson.
- Woman in Black is composed of mixed genres from hard edged science fiction in Saving Abraham to YA Literature in Jennifer Rising.
- You're the Who?: A guide to classic band name origins + rock connections!, is a collection of short articles which tell how rock bands and singers chose their stage names while also showing Rock Connections between the performers.
He also co-authored a cookbook with his late grandmother, Loretta Duffy. Their work, Grandma’s Favorite Recipes, is a cookbook made up of his late grandmother's favorite recipes which she hand wrote over the course of seventy years.[1]
His final book is a short, three part, prose play entitled The Earthling which tells of a man and his son’s relationship as each one dwells in a generation that conflicts with the other.[2]
References
- ↑ "Recipe Revival - Los Angeles Times". Articles.latimes.com. 1997-04-24. Retrieved 2013-08-18.
- ↑ "Inside the Author's Story" (PDF). Librarycaralog.info. Retrieved 2013-08-18.