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Michael D. Beil

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Michael D. Beil grew up in rural Ohio , where he learned to milk cows and other important lessons. He was a sailor, sailmaker and lawyer before finding his true calling in 1997: Teacher.

Since 2001, he has taught English and drama at Saint Vincent Ferrer, an all-girls Catholic high school in Manhattan, where he also wrote and produced Aftershocks, a play based on the challenges facing the immigrant families of some of his students.

He lives in New York with his wife, Laura Grimmer, and their animals, dog Isabel and cats Cyril and Emma, and his complete collection of the Harvard Classics.

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Books by Michael D. Beil

Average rating: 3.78 · 966 ratings · 259 reviews · 7 distinct works

	The Red Blazer Girls: The Ring of Rocamadour 3.67 avg rating — 636 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Red Blazer Girls: The Vanishing Violin 3.97 avg rating — 199 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Red Blazer Girls: The Mistaken Masterpiece 4.08 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Summer at Forsaken Lake by Michael D. Beil, Maggie Kneen (Illustrations) 3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings — expected publication 2012 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Red Blazer Girls: The Secret Cellar 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Red Blazer Girls: The Secret Cellar 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:
	El Violin Desaparecido (Club de Las Chaquetas Rojas 2) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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“In wrapping things up the writer had a choice: the "happy" ending in which the two former enemies are rescued and we can imagine them going forward with their lives as friends the "realistic" ending in which they are rescued but immediately resume their quarrel: or the cruelly ironic ending where fate takes a hand.
The class was about evenly divided among the three endings. For Me though there was no choice the writer absolutely had to go with the ironic one. What would be the point I argued of a story like that with a happy ending The two men walking off into the sunset together and unharmed isnt an ending-it's a cop-out.”
― Michael D. Beil, The Red Blazer Girls: The Mistaken Masterpiece

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“Livvy and me together in an elevator for four hours..and we're good. To some eyes the fact that we're both alive could be viewed as a minor miracle.”
― Michael D. Beil

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