About the Author

Dan Close lives and writes in the hills of northwestern Vermont. His newest novel, entitled Song of Quebec, is a historic thriller, set in 1971 in Quebec City during the turmoil of Quebec’s Separatiste Movement. A previous novel, The Glory of the Kings, was selected as the recipient of the Maria Thomas Best In Fiction prize for 2014, awarded annually by Peace Corps Writers. Another of his books, What the Abenaki Say About Dogs, received the official seal of the Vermont Quadricentennial Celebration of Samuel Champlain.  He is a member of the Executive Board of the Poetry Society of Vermont, and a past Board Member and Treasurer of the League of Vermont Writers. 

He was born in Brooklyn, grew up on the south shore of Long Island, and attended St. John’s University, graduating in 1962. His degree in English Literature was supplemented during the late fifties and early sixties by forays into the Gaslight Café on MacDougal Street in Greenwich  Village, where he experienced the poetry and song of the Beat Generation. He joined the Peace Corps in 1966, serving in Ethiopia. He has lived in St. Croix, Virgin Islands; Shiprock, New Mexico; Bekoji, Ethiopia; Manhattan; and Vermont, and has pursued various pursuits, all centering on his love of writing. He has been living happily in unwedded bliss with his partner Joan Bowker since 1973, when they met in an elevator going up to the same apartment – a political meeting on the fourteenth floor of a building on 14th Street in Manhattan. The date: February 14th. Now that’s what I call a story!