Larry K. Andrews, author

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Gender	Male
Industry	Education
Occupation	Writer & Author
Location	Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
Introduction	By BILL CLARK* Larry Andrews graduated from the University of Missouri with a doctorate in English, spent 40 years as a professor and administrator at the University of Nebraska, teaching English, retired in 2008. Since then, he’s become a novelist and has published his first novel, Songs of Sadness, Songs of Love (Author House, 2010). He has published four university-level textbooks, one translated into Korean. He has been a consultant to Imo State University in Nigeria and a visiting professor at the University of London. Larry played tennis for more than 20 years and finally gave up coed slow-pitch softball at age 50. He was an avid fisherman — a catch-and-release guy — until five years ago, when pneumonia plunged him into a two-week coma. He’s fine now, except for nagging post-polio syndrome, has finished a second novel — now en route to the printer — about the theft of intellectual property. [*This is a redaction of an article by Bill Clark, published on page A2 of the Friday, October 15, 2010 edition of The Columbia (MO) Daily Tribune.]
Interests	Reading, Writing, Some TV sports, Food [both cooking and eating], Movies
Favorite Books	1.amazon.com/songs of sadness songs of love, 2.amazon.com/language exploration and awareness, 3. Anything by Robert B. Parker. 3. amazon.com/linguistics for L2 teachers