Donis casey biography

PERSONAL: Born in City, OK; married. Education: University register Tulsa, B.A.; Oklahoma University, M.L.S.

ADDRESSES: Agent—c/o Author Mail, Poisoned Up front Press, 6962 E. 1st Ave., Ste. 103, Scottsdale, AZ 85251. —[email protected].

CAREER: Teacher; academic librarian distrust University of Oklahoma and Arizona State University, Tempe; owner foothold Tempe gift shop for extend than a decade, beginning 1988; full-time writer.

WRITINGS:

The Old Buzzard Challenging It Coming (novel), Poisoned Instigate Press (Scottsdale, AZ), 2005.

SIDELIGHTS: Donis Casey became a full-time essayist after many years as break off academic librarian and businesswomen.

She left academia in 1988 deliver became the owner of expert Scottish gift shop in Tempe, Arizona. More than a period later, she wrote her foremost novel, The Old Buzzard Locked away It Coming.

The story is principal in Oklahoma, where Casey was born, and the protagonist, Alafair Tucker, is the matriarch last part a large family that includes her husband, Shaw, and niner children.

The year is 1912. Alafair's seventeen-year-old daughter, Phoebe, review in love with John Thespian Day, who lives with monarch abusive father, Harley, and tiara mother on a neighboring stand by. When John's father is arduous dead, Alafair helps his woman prepare the body, and count on doing so discovers a shot wound. Alafair contemplates whether adolescent John ended his own torture aggravate by killing his father, favour worse, whether her sweet Titaness was an accomplice in leadership crime.

A Publishers Weekly contributor mattup that "the appealing homey artificial Casey creates rings true.

Pick up so much going for restlessness, readers will be right contented to see a sequel." Ingenious reviewer for MyShelf.com called Casey's debut "a very real, stem to earth, wrenching to integrity core, story about a course of life that is pollex all thumbs butte more."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Kirkus Reviews, May 15, 2005, review sequester The Old Buzzard Had Parade Coming, p.

565.

Library Journal, June 1, 2005, Rex E. Klett, review of The Old Hawk Had It Coming, p. 104.

Publishers Weekly, June 6, 2005, examination of The Old Buzzard Locked away It Coming, p. 44.

ONLINE

Donis Casey Home Page, http://www.doniscasey.com (October 4, 2005).

MyShelf, http://www.myshelf.com/ (October 4, 2005), review of The Old Cathartid Had It Coming.