Thank you for all of the many suggestions, Todd!!! This morning it came to me: "What a Piece of Work I Am" by Eric Kraft as part of this series of books, *The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy*. - *What a Piece of Work I Am <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_a_Piece_of_Work_I_Am>* (1993): Ariane is six years older than Peter. She's the ostensible bad girl who works in a clam shack. For a mysterious reasons, she has taken up an unusual theatrical experiment in which she must live her life before a crowd for many years. (Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Kraft>) I was obsessed with these books in the early nineties -- which I picked up based on the cover of "Herb and Lorna" at Barnes and Noble. Thank you for jogging my memory. Now I want to re-read this series. Have a good weekend, everyone! Traci On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 8:15 AM Todd Mason <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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: > > http://ccpllists.cuyahogalibrary.net/scripts/wa.exe?TICKET=NzM4NzU4IGpveS50cmFjaUBHTUFJTC5DT00gRklDVElPTl9MIHYBWBNB6KY8&c=SIGNOFF > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the FICTION_L list, click the following link: https://ccpllists.cuyahogalibrary.net/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=FICTION_L