NOVELIST
NOVELS
THE GIANT OF ILLINOIS: Robert Wadlow--the tallest person who ever lived--travels as a shoe ambassador with his dad across 30s America, in order to save his family home. Hanging over their journey is the dark specter of Robert's health, a Circus Promoter who exploits his “freaks," and a Doctor who threatens to perform experiments on Robert…dead or alive. (querying)
Charlotte reading “Woof” Hall
RULO: During the height of 80s “Satanic panic,” a charismatic white supremacist recruits a cult of religious survivalists to a Nebraska farm, convincing its poor but ordinary members to commit unspeakable acts in God’s name as they prepare for the battle of Armageddon. (first draft)
Me, next to Robert Wadlow’s life-sized statue
“If all men abandon you and even drive you away by force, then when you are left alone fall on the earth and kiss it, water it with your tears and it will bring forth fruit even though no one has seen or heard you in your solitude.”
Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov