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Brooks Wright was born in New York and moved to Kansas City the summer of his ninth birthday. He began playing drums professionally in bars and nightclubs when he was fourteen. After a lengthy career as a musician, at times performing with some of the world’s greatest jazz musicians, he went back to school and earned a Bachelors degree in English Literature and Philosophy from Salem State College, graduating summa cum laude. Though he had written before, he began a more serious writing career while earning his degree. He has  honed his craft, attending numerous workshops, conferences, and graduate courses, while completing several novels, plays, and numerous short stories. His novel, Now I Say Goodbye To You, was chosen one of the best Indie Fiction books of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews. 

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Some favorite books and authors are:

Toni Morrison - Beloved

Edith Pearlman - Binocular Vision

Reynolds Price - A Long and Happy Life; Kate Vaiden 

Alice Munro

Adam Haslett 

Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man

Ian McEwan - Atonement; Nutshell 

Nicole Krauss – The History of Love 

Richard Ford – The Bascombe Novels 

Marilynne Robinson – Housekeeping; Lila; Jack 

Cormac McCarthy – The Border Trilogy; Blood Meridian 

William Kennedy – The Albany Trilogy 

Paul Bowles – The Sheltering Sky 

William Gay -- The Long Home; Provinces of Night 

Susanna Kaysen – Asa As I Knew Him 

Louise Erdrich 

Annie Proulx 

William Styron 

Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Love In The Time of Cholera; 100 Years of Solitude

Quincy Troupe - Miles

E.L. Doctorow

Virginia Woolf

Steven Millhauser

Flannery O'Connor

Laura Esquivel - Like Water For Chocolate

Jon Banville

William Trevor

Adam Johnson - Fortune Smiles; The Orphan Master's Son

Zadie Smith - White Teeth

Said Sayrafiezadeh - Brief Encounters With The Enemy

J.M. Coetzee​

John Williams - Butcher's Crossing; Stoner

Elizabeth Bowen - The House in Paris; Collected Stories; The Last September. 

Barry Unsworth - Sacred Hunger; Morality Play

Jesmyn Ward



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