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I can’t remember not wanting to be a writer. By junior high in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, I began filling spiral notebooks with stories inspired by popular sci-fi and horror movies before moving on to more realistic fiction in high school. As an undergrad at UW-Madison, majoring in German, I began to keep a diary, still maintained many thousands of pages and more than a half century later.
Outside of my college course work, I began to analyze the techniques of every author I read and following a tour of duty in the Army Security Agency applied these self-taught lessons in the creation of three academic apprenticeship novels. Eventually, I earned a Master’s degree in Library Science and became a professional librarian at Ohio University in Athens, where I still live. In my spare hours while serving the worthy cause of education, I wrote eighty-one more short stories, nine novels, six screenplays, and submitted queries to editors and agents. In 1994, my persistence finally paid off when my first short story appeared in print, to be followed by thirty-seven others. No kids, but many a beloved cat. And a diehard Packers and Badgers fan. I also love reading, walking, biking, foreign languages, genealogy, photography, films, history, and, above all, my Sharon. |
Books by Daniel Luther Olson
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