James David Audlin

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Gender Male
Industry Arts
Occupation Writer, Editor, Translator, Musician
Location Paso Ancho, Chiriquí, Panama
Introduction James David Audlin is an American author living in Panama, after previously living in France. A retired pastor, college professor, and newspaper Opinion Page editor, he is best known as the author of "The Circle of Life", translator of the Gospel of John, and the novelist responsible for "Rats Live on no Evil Star". He also writes plays, stories, essays, and poetry. He is also a professional musician. His adult daughter and son live in Vermont, USA. Read about, talk about, his books at http://audlinbooks.com or at https://www.facebook.com/pages/James-David-Audlin-Fiction-Nonfiction-Poetry/308288595898809 - where you'll also find information on ordering his books in e-book, softcover, and hardcover!
Interests World Religion and Spirituality, World Fiction, Dreams, Writing, Music, Sciences, History, Native American Studies
Favorite Books Kobo Abe, Chinua Achebe, Demetrio Aguilera-Malta, Angelou, José Maria Arguedas, Audlin, Basho, Baudelaire, Beowulf, Blake, Jorge Luis Borges, Leigh Brackett, Ray Bradbury, Fredric Brown, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Byron, Italo Calvino, Camus, Cao Xueqin, Catullus, Cervantes, Raymond Chandler, Chanson de Roland, Chaucer, cummings, Dantë, Ray Davies, Samuel R. Delany, Dickens, Dostoyevskyii, Dunsany, E. R. Eddison, T. S. Eliot, Harlan Ellison, Frost, Mark S. Geston, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Gide, Gilgamesh Epic, Gisli Saga, Goethe, Goyen, Kenneth Grahame, Grettir Saga, Han-shan, Hawthorne, Hemingway, Hoban, Homer, Tove Jansson, Joyce, Kafka, Keats, Kerouac, Sigismund Krzhizhanovsky, Camara Laye, Laxdæla Saga, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stanislaw Lem, John Lennon, Doris Lessing, C. S. Lewis, Lorca, Lovecraft, Lucius Apuleius, George MacDonald, Marquez, David May, Hugo de Masci, Melville, Milton, William Morris, Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Murasaki, Nerval, Nibelungenlied, Anaïs Nin, Andre Norton, Omar Khayyam, Patchen, Paz, Mervyn Peake, Poe, Rilke, Rimbaud, Rousseau, Rumi, Saint-Exupéry, Sappho, Dr. Seuss, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Clark Ashton Smith, Gary Snyder, Sophocles, Wole Soyinka, Olaf Stapledon, Tennyson, Dylan Thomas, Tolkien, Tolstoy, Twain, Jack Vance, Élisabeth Vonarburg, H. G. Wells, Whitman, Charles Williams, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Wordsworth, Wu Cheng-en, Marguerite Yourçenar, Yevgeny Zamyatin. And the great spiritual texts: Bahà-ù-'llàh, Bardo-Thödol, Bhagavad-Gità, Bible, Dhammapada, Granth Sahib, Heart Sutra, Kaiane'ko:wa, Qur'an, Talmud, Tao-te Ching, Upanishads, Zend-Avesta.