Another stab...former F&SF editor and current publisher Gordon Van Gelder notes: This sounds congruent with Rick Bowes, Jeffrey Ford, and Paul Park, but none of the details line up well enough to make me think we have a match. fwd TM https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2023/07/ssw-dale-or-william-dale-jennings.html On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 9:41 PM Traci Joy <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Male author who wrote fiction in the ~1990's about his fictional(?) > childhood in the 1950's NY/NJ or MA coast. A lot of clam eating mentioned. > All of his books have an element of fantasy - whether about women or his > fictionalized, somewhat idealistic world as a child growing up in the > 1950's. I think some of these books might have been part of a series. The > covers were 1950's inspired font and imagery. > > Also, he wrote one specific book about a woman who lived her life on a > stage. People could come view her play on stage, which was really just her > living a solitary life in a small town theatre. > > I am totally BLANKING on this author's name. His books would have been in > bookstores in the 1990s (Barnes and Noble and Borders), but I think he > fell out of popularity at one point, or stopped writing. (If he ever was > very popular??) Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thank you! > Traci > -- > • • • • • • • • • • • > Traci Joy, MLIS > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the FICTION_L list, click the following link: > > http://ccpllists.cuyahogalibrary.net/scripts/wa.exe?TICKET=NzM4NzU1IGZveGJyaWNrQEdNQUlMLkNPTSBGSUNUSU9OX0wgIHAGmK3RbpKb&c=SIGNOFF > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the FICTION_L list, click the following link: https://ccpllists.cuyahogalibrary.net/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=FICTION_L