WORDMAN by P.F. Kluge (Micronesia)

Wordman
by P.F. Kluge (Micronesia 1967-69)
Peace Corps Writers Publishers
January 2024
204 pages
$22.00 (Paperback)

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P.F. Kluge (Micronesia 1967-69)

The summation of a distinguished career in writing fiction, writing for film, travel writing, and teaching, P.F. Kluge’s Wordman is a source book for emerging writers and a memorable set of reflections upon a life spent as a journalist, author, and teacher. Kluge’s service in the Peace Corps in the early 1960s provided an unexpected geographic focus that has accrued to a lifetime of novels and creative nonfiction.

Of the many successful Peace Corps writers, P.F. Kluge (Micronesia 1967-69) is recognized as one of our most accomplished, having published seven novels, two books of nonfiction, and countless articles for The Wall Street Journal, Life, Playboy, Rolling Stone, and Smithsonian. With his Master of Arts degree and a PhD from the University of Chicago, he has been for the last ten years the Writer-in-Residence at Kenyon College which he attended as an undergraduate.

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Of his many novels, Eddie and the Cruisers, was also made into a movie, and  the movie Dog Day Afternoon was based on  an article he co-wrote and published in Life magazine, “The Boys in the Bank.”

Wordman, P.F.’s new and 15^th book is a literary look back as his long career as a writer and professor.

Based on the path of his writing career, it was his Peace Corps experience that help make P.F. a standout as a writer. Micronesia, as a PCV, was his first major overseas experience. His writing travel articles for magazines owes its origins to his Pacific time as a PCV. Because of his Peace Corps experiences he understood what these countries were like. It was the world he loved and understood. In many ways, Micronesia, his Peace Corps assignment, was his Walden Pond.