Alan R. Hall is a North Carolina columnist and theater critic who has plied his trade for over thirty years. He is also a published poet, essayist, and short story author as well as a theater enthusiast. Mr. Hall is a graduate of Augusta State University of Georgia and studied oral interpretation for performance at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. This is his first full-length novel. Alan lived and worked in Chapel Hill, NC, from 1974 to 2008, where he worked closely with theater groups on campus, as well as traveling the state to see shows performed from the Flat Rock Playhouse near Hendersonville, his boyhood home, to theaters in Manteo and the Outer Banks. He has been married for over 40 years to Mary Patrick. Since semi-retirement, they make their home on a twenty-acre animal preserve near Oxford, NC.
