Jerome Peterson
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Author of suspense fiction and poetry |
| Location | Sonora, California, United States |
| Introduction | Grew up in Rockford, Illinois; raised Catholic; graduated from high school; traveled out west and found myself;lost myself;found my wife of thirty years in Durango, Colo.; adopted two girls and raised them; lived in a haunted house; lived in southern Mississippi,Idaho,Arizona,Colorado, in my car, in a tent, on the beach, on the road; hitchhiked often; played baseball and dreamed of playing for the Chicago Cubs; recorded music and tried to sell it, but failed; was a bum, street musician, resort worker, unemployed, laid off, fired, preacher, tree trimmer, missionary, farmer, gardener,laborer,janitor, cook, cabinetmaker; broke a collar bone falling off a picnic table, broke my right ankle falling down the stairs, I space out often and dream. I like to listen and write novels. |
| Interests | Writing, books, music, art, gardening, house plants, spirituality, philosophy, the moon and stars, sketching, travel, baseball, sailing, the ocean, the theater, cooking, an occasional drink, and of course educating my perception. |
| Favorite movies | Black and Whites, Dances with Wolves, Rainman, Wag the Dog, The Graduate, The Birds, Waterfront, The Pink Panther, Gaslight, In the Heat of the Night, The Visitor, Once. |
| Favorite music | Bob Dylan, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Bonnie Raitt, Joan Osborne, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Yellowjackets, Dishwalla, Chicago, Allman Brothers Band, Frank Zappa, Leonard Cohen, Enya, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Eric Clapton, Frederic Chopin, Tony Bennett, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Cake, Deep Purple, The Four Seasons, and so much more! |
| Favorite books | The Lord of the Rings, The Grapes of Wrath, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Slaughterhouse Five, 1984, Brave New World, Of Mice and Men, White Oleander, Tuesdays with Morrie, The Shining, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Leaves of Grass, Short Stories of Edgar Allen Poe, The Thorn Birds, When The Legends Die, Goodbye Columbus, In Cold Blood, Black Like Me, Run Rabbit Run, On The Road, The Prophet. |