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Joseph Monninger

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October 28, 1953 in Baltimore, The United States

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Joseph Monninger has published eleven novels and three non-fiction books. His work has appeared in American Heritage, Scientific American, Readers Digest, Glamour, Playboy, Story, Fiction, The Boston Globe, Sports Illustrated and Ellery Queen, among other publications. He has twice received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and has also received a fellowship from the New Hampshire Council for the Arts. His young adult novel, Baby, was awarded the 2008 award for best children’s literature from the Peace Corps Writers. It was also chosen as a top ten book by YALSA, the American Library Association. The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s’ Books awarded Hippie Chick, a young adult novel, a blue ribbon for a top book of 200...more Joseph Monninger has published eleven novels and three non-fiction books. His work has appeared in American Heritage, Scientific American, Readers Digest, Glamour, Playboy, Story, Fiction, The Boston Globe, Sports Illustrated and Ellery Queen, among other publications. He has twice received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and has also received a fellowship from the New Hampshire Council for the Arts. His young adult novel, Baby, was awarded the 2008 award for best children’s literature from the Peace Corps Writers. It was also chosen as a top ten book by YALSA, the American Library Association. The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s’ Books awarded Hippie Chick, a young adult novel, a blue ribbon for a top book of 2008.

Joseph Monninger grew up in Westfield, New Jersey and attended Temple University on a football scholarship. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Upper Volta, now Burkina Faso, from 1975-77. He has been a licensed New Hampshire Fishing Guide and has fly-fished from New Zealand to Wyoming’s Wind River Range. He lives with his wife, Wendy, and his son, Justin, in a converted barn near New Hampshire’s Baker River. For several years his family competed in the New England Sled Dog sprint races and ran a small sled dog business in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. Laika and Willow, two sled dogs, live in happy retirement with them.

As a teacher at one time or another at the University of New Hampshire, the Lincoln School in Providence, Rhode Island, The American International School in Vienna, and at Plymouth State University, Joseph Monninger has spent thirty years in classrooms. During the summers he directed academic enrichment programs at Williams and Amherst Colleges. He led student groups on bicycle tours across Europe, sailed the Whitsunday Islands near the Great Barrier Reef, and worked on community service projects in Montserrat, West Indies and on the Crow Reservation in Montana. He has taken a mail boat across the southern edge of Newfoundland and, as a young man, hitch-hiked across the United States three times.

His latest novel, Eternal on the Water, will be published by Pocketbooks in February 2010.

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Clocks……

I admit I have a fascination with clocks. I wear a watch and I have half a dozen clocks around our house. A long time ago, when I lived in Vienna, Austria, I purchased two German wall clocks at a back alley shop. I thought I might be able to bring them back home and sell them. When I finally took them out of their boxes Stateside– not easy to send a clock, believe me — I took them to a clock ap...

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Average rating: 3.74 · 1,637 ratings · 479 reviews · 18 distinct works

	Eternal on the Water 3.92 avg rating — 610 ratings — published 2010 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The World As We Know It 3.88 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Wish 3.86 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Baby 3.62 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Hippie Chick 3.59 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Finding Somewhere 3.72 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	My rating:
	A Barn in New England: Making a Home on Three Acres 3.87 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Home Waters: Fishing with an Old Friend: A Memoir 4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Two Ton: One Night, One Fight -Tony Galento v. Joe Louis 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	New Jersey 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:

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" Quick Start SS: How would you describe your life in only 8 words? JM: Family, dogs, land, woods, rivers, fish, fire, words. SS: What is your motto or maxim? JM: What you lose in the whirlygig, you get back in the ding dong. What Readers want to know...." ...More

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This is absolutely one of the best novels I've read in a long, long time. It will not be to everyone's taste; it is slow in places, but that is part of its charm. It recounts the story of Jane -- a young woman from post Victorian time until WWI. A wo...more
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First short stories I've read by Hall. Admire his poetry.
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Wonderful memoir of life in the Maine woods. Great read.
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“...These stars will be gone one day for you. They will be for me, too. The Raven promises me I will turn back to sticks and dirt, and I believe him. But until then I am a human being and that is something to be. I stand on my feet and I look at the stars and I feel the seasons. If you work at it long enough, I promise you that will be enough for you...This world, every day, it's enough.”
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