Richard Fordyce was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. In 1970, at the age of eighteen, he pulled a high lottery number which ended the threat of his being drafted into the United States military. From 1978 to 1980, he taught math and English at a rural secondary school in the Western Region of Ghana, West Africa. In 1985, he moved from Seattle to Cape Cod where he eventually started a small roofing and siding business which continues to this day. Richard had a long story published in Crab Creek Review in 1986, and in 2006 he placed third in the White Eagle Coffee Store Press International Long Fiction Writing Contest.
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GLEN
iUniverse
2008
302 pages
$18.95
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The novel, GLEN, follows the life of Glen Gray from his youth in the Pacific Northwest through his service in Vietnam in the mid-1960s — the turbulent “sixties” — and his eventual service with the Peace Corps in a rural village on the coast of West Africa in the 1970s.
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Lawrence F. Lihosit (Honduras 1975–77) reviewed GLEN for Peace Corps Worldwide in which he said
This is an unusual book. The author has no desire to relive his own Peace Corps experience, explain perceived mistakes or lampoon those who were perceived as doing him wrong. Rather, he has created a literary construct to describe a people. This is an intriguing time capsule. Buy it!”
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