Larry W. Chavis

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Gender	Male
Industry	Education
Occupation	Teacher
Location	Mendenhall, MIssissippi, United States
Introduction	Married happily for 37 years, two kids, and 4 fantastic grandkids. Love to read, hunt, fish, but mostly learn. Write, short stories mostly, even had a few published.
Interests	Crime/mystery fiction (reading and writing), Muzzleloading firearms, guns of the Old West, nineteenth century American history in general, Freemasonry, the Knights Templar, and a thousand-and-one other things.
Favorite Movies	Tombstone, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Maltese Falcon, The Postman Always Rings Twice -- many others
Favorite Books	A Place of Execution (Val McDermid), No Country for Old Men (Cormac McCarthy), The Lord of the Rings (trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien), The Bible, Mystic River (Dennis Lehane), The Cold Dish (Craig Johnson), The Civil War: A Narrative (Shelby Foote), and more ....

Which do you prefer and why: whittling with soap or whistling with wood?

Writing with soap, of course; who wouldn't?