Jory Sherman
Pulitzer Prize nominee Jory Sherman is one of America’s most talented individuals. He is an accomplished artist. He first gained fame and recognition across the country as a leading force of the beat poet generation during the turbulent days of the 1960s. He has published more than a thousand magazine articles and five hundred short stories. And Jory Sherman, with a writing career that has spanned five decades, is renowned and respected as a prolific novelist. His nomination for the Pulitzer Prize came from his classic novel, The Grass Kingdom.
Warren French, a professor of Literature at the University of Florida, noted: “Jory Sherman has a strange and powerful knowledge of language and an almost perfect ear.”
Sherman actually began writing at age eight when he was grief stricken over the death of his puppy, Doopers. He read James Joyce’s Ulysses two years later and fell in love with language and mythology. His professional writing career began as a poet in San Francisco.
Sherman has published more than three hundred books for such publishers as Doubleday, Zebra, Avon, Berkley, Walker & Co., Tor, Forge, Pinnacle, and Bantam. He has created and packaged book series for Avon, Harlequin, Gold Eagle, Pinnacle, Paperjacks, Zebra, and Bantam.
He presently lives in Pittsburg, Texas, on Lake Bob Sandlin . He points out: “I think self-discipline is a big factor when it comes to success as a writer, so I write just about every day. When I’m not writing, I’m reading or I’m thinking about writing. I have no life. When drafting, I try to write at least ten pages a day. I try not to go back and edit until I have fifty pages to work with. I’m very aware of the passage of time. I could easily spend two years crafting a book, but I don’t have that luxury. As a result, it takes me about nine months from start to deadline to finish a book.”
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