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About the Author

Harry W. Kendall, eighty-eight years old, is a black novelist, playwright, and yoga enthusiast. He earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a journalism degree from Rutgers University. Harry grew up in the steel mill and coal mine region of western Pennsylvania. He began writing at midcareer as a worthy candidate of a central New Jersey newspaper's joint effort with Rutgers to comply with the 1968 report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. It stressed the hiring of blacks and Latinos to redress the imbalance of whites and blacks in the news media. While working on his MFA, Harry concentrated on meditation and found his true voice in writing from an inner sacred place. He has conducted workshops on meditation and writing for the National Writers Union. Harry's first novel, Truth Crushed to Earth, self-published in 1999, won a Certificate of Merit from Writers Magazine. He has published short stories in literary magazines and lectured at the Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC; Pratt Library in Baltimore, Maryland; Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; City College in New York; St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, and Brattleboro, Vermont.