Frederic S Durbin

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Frederic s durbin. Durbin grew up in the countryside of rural illinois where he spent his childhood exploring the fields and climbing trees usually barefoot immersed in the stories contained in books. Durbin is an american writer and novelist of fantasy and horror his first novel dragonfly was published by arkham house in 1999 it was nominated for an international horror guild award for best first novel. Durbin grew up in rural central illinois and studied classical languages mythology and english literature at concordia college river forest now concordia university chicago graduating summa cum laude he lived in japan from 1988 2011 where he taught esl and writing at niigata university. Reviewed by donald s.

The world is full of fantasy and wonder perfectly fitting. See search results for this author. She was fun to get to know. His parents opened the town s first bookstore and his mother created the libraries for the four local elementary schools and served as head.

Durbin is the author of a green and ancient light 4 10 avg rating 1308 ratings 278 reviews published 2016 dragonfly 3 79 avg rating 2. Some mysteries are action filled the protagonist moving from crisis to crisis always just a step ahead of catastrophe while the unexplained events pile up until the last critical clue unlocks the whole mystery. Durbin is an american writer and novelist of fantasy and horror. Durbin author visit amazon s frederic s.

Find all the books read about the author and more. She showed me things that i hadn t seen in a while. His second novel the star shard was published by houghton mifflin harcourt in 2012. Now residing with his wife among the wooded hills of western pennsylvania he is a.

I quickly fell in love with the main character despite our age difference. Are you an author. Durbin author casey holloway reader 4 5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings. I ve met frederic durbin at a few cons and consider him a friend.

His first novel dragonfly was published by arkham house in 1999 it was nominated for an international horror guild award for best first novel. Durbin grew up in the countryside of rural illinois where he spent his childhood exploring the fields and climbing trees usually barefoot immersed in the stories contained in books. His parents opened the town s first bookstore and his mother created the libraries for the four local elementary schools and served as head.