Stu Ayris
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Psychiatric Nurse |
| Location | Tollesbury, Essex, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | I was born in the Summer of 1969 in Dagenham, just on the border of East London. School was largely unproductive but enjoyable, setting me up for something of a wayward but interesting life! On leaving school I had various jobs including putting up stalls at Romford Market, working in a record shop, putting up ceilings, gardening and road sweeping. After resigning from an insurance company to play in a band, I found myself unemployed for two years. Then finally I got back on my feet and I've been a psychiatric nurse since 1997. I wrote A Cleansing of Souls when I was 22 years old and followed it up with Tollesbury Time Forever almost twenty years later. I started writing The Bird That Nobody Sees in September 2011 and it was released in July 2012. In terms of writing, my heroes are Jack Kerouac and John Steinbeck. I would also include Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan and Tom Waits as literary influences. So that's me I guess - scruffy, happy and in love with literary fiction, music and life... |
| Interests | Writing, reading, music, cricket, football |
| Favorite Movies | Harvey, Mullholland Drive, Cinema Paradiso |
| Favorite Music | Tom Waits, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, The Band, Sam Baker, Rick Danko, Kris Kristofferson, Buddy Holly, Jonathan Richman |
| Favorite Books | A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, Buddhism Without Belief, A Road Less Travelled, Jonathan Livingstone Seagull |