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Richard Noel Hill

Goodreads Author

Born

in Sault Ste. Marie, MI, The United States

Website

http://www.RichardHillbooks.com/

Genre

Memoir, Humor and Comedy, Fiction

Influences

Garrison Keillor
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Member Since

January 2011

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/wizegeye

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Born on Christmas Day in 1952, Rich Hill grew up in Sault Ste. Marie in Michigan's Eastern Upper Peninsula. He lives along the southeastern shores of Lake Superior with his wife and a cocker spaniel named Maxwell. In his free time, he works on his log house, jams with fellow musicians (drums), reads, shovels snow, and plays tennis. Over the years, Rich has worked at a variety of unusual jobs from apple picker, balloon salesman, house painter, and custom furniture finisher to deckhand on various Great Lakes freighters. Along with his wife, he has owned and managed various retail stores from a gift shop to an art gallery and ready-to-finish furniture store. He loves nothing better than telling a good story. Which is where his love for writin ...more

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Richard Noel Hill’s books

Average rating: 3.82 · 142 ratings · 21 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Lake Effect: A Deckhand's Journey on the Great Lakes Freighters 3.88 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hitchhiking After Dark: Offbeat Stories from a Small Town 2.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lost in the Woods: Building a Life UP North 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	West of the River, North of the Bridge: Stories from Michigan's U.P. 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Richard Hill entered a giveaway Fever Beach: A Novel by Carl Hiaasen (Goodreads Author) 24 copies available, ends on March 30, 2026 Enter to win »
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Richard Hill and 176 other people liked Karen's review of Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice: "Raw truth and tragedy. “I know it is a lot to take in. But please don’t stop reading.” There are some books we choose. And there are some books that choose us. I wasn’t sure I really wanted to read this one. Even as a donation for my Little Free Library" Read more of this review »
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Richard Hill and 295 other people liked Greg Abandoned's review of Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice: "Before I start, I want to say that I’m a naturally skeptical person. Also want to say clearly that after reading Nobody’s Girl, I genuinely believe Virginia Giuffre. The level of detail, the consistency, and the sheer emotional reality of what she de" Read more of this review »
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Richard Hill liked Garrison Keillor's blog post: Sticking my neck out, talking to myself "American culture took a sharp turn when the guitar took supremacy over the keyboard. I was a teenager, I remember it. Little Richard sat down at the piano in 1955 and tore the joint apart with “Tutti Frutti” (A wop bop a loo bop, a lop bam boom!) ..." Read more of this blog post »
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Richard’s Quotes

“It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.”
― Charles Kuralt

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“Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.”
― Charles Kuralt

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“When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.”
― Stephen King, Storm of the Century

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