Richard Merriman

Okie Boy II - Julian's Journey (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Okie Boy II: Julian's Journey continues the fictional story of the Milligan family as they struggle to escape the clutches of the Great Depression and attempt to establish lives for themselves in and around the city of Wenatchee in the state of Washington. As the first Okie Boy volume ends, the family has completed the trip west and is still struggling to find work. They have worked at various jobs and have already relocated in the area several times. They found thus far only temporary fixes, short-term jobs, and apt-to-fail personal relationships.

Book II deals with the family's renewed struggle to survive and to maintain some sense of the kind of people that they want to be.

In this work of fiction, the author draws upon bits and pieces of some actual events and sets them in real places. If events, characters, places, and problems in this tale seem to the reader like events he or she has witnessed or experienced, if characters remind the reader of real people that he or she knows or has known, if places are familiar enough to recognize, and if the reader has experienced some of the many problems that the Milligan family have to deal with all that is as the writer would have it be. Real people and real problems are of primary concern. Samuel Milligan's only son is the focus of Book II but the lives of all nine of Samuel and Martha Milligan's unforgettable offspring play large roles in the twelve years presented in this novel.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: fidelipublishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781604144055
• Artikelnr.: 48252086

Autorenporträt

About the Author

Richard J. Merriman was born in 1936 at Keefeton, a very small town near Muskogee in northeastern Oklahoma. His father was a farmer, for most of his life a sharecropper. When Richard was nine, the Merriman family migrated to the Wenatchee Valley in the state of Washington, looking for a better life.

In 1954, he became the first person in his family to acquire a high school diploma. In 1959, his younger sister became the second. Both diplomas were earned at Wenatchee High School.

Married in 1959 in Wenatchee, Richard and his wife Linda moved to Seattle in 1960 where he earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree and a teaching certificate from the University of Washington. Richard has remained the only one of the nine siblings to be awarded a four-year college degree. At the university three classes on the writing of the short story, under the instruction of Professor Grant Redford, advanced his understanding of the primary principles of fiction writing. Professor Redford took a special interest in Richard's writing and sparked in him a continuing motivation and interest in it. Writing became something that he actually needed to do.

While at the university Richard spent roughly fifty per cent of his waking hours being a student and the other fifty per cent working at the Washington Bookstore. Linda's time was also divided, taking time away from her secretarial duties to give birth to a son and a daughter and applying the remainder being a mother and wife.

After receiving a Bachelor of Arts Degree and a provisional teaching certificate, at the U., Richard became more diligent in his search for a teaching position. Though there were opportunities to interview for much sought-after openings in Seattle schools, he chose not to apply there, hoping instead to find a career for himself and a home for his young and growing family in a smaller community. He found exactly that in Okanogan, Washington, population an unwavering 2000.

That first real job turned into a 28- year career, teaching both junior and senior high school English, along with high school journalism. Linda was also employed by the Okanogan School District as a secretary, retiring in 1994 after a 26-year career.

Richard has only high praise for the place in which he and Linda chose to live and work:

"During my years at Okanogan I watched many young teachers arrive, linger a year or two and then move on. I never ha...