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Kenneth Butcher

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I was born in Washington DC and grew up mostly in Ohio. My father was, among other things an avid reader, especially of science fiction. I can remember the stacks of Analog Science Fact and Fiction magazines in the cupboards. Early on he would sift out the best of the stories and pass them on to me.

I grew up in a pretty conventional house hold with my two sisters and brother, mother and father. For most of my childhood my grandfather lived with us as well. Summers were spent with my grandmother on her farm in West Virginia where I got to visit and play with my hoards of cousins.

I went to Ohio State University studying engineering, graduated, married my high school girlfriend, worked in a research lab in Kent, Ohio and started raising a fa ...more

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The Middle of the Air
3.52 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions
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The Dream of Saint Ursula
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“To Paraphrase William Faulkner, " In Asheville the fifteenth century is never dead. It's not even past”
― Kenneth Butcher, The Crossbow Murders, an Asheville Mystery
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