For the Beauty of the Earth (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781450564243)

Born in Woburn, Massachusetts, David B. Lentz graduated from Bates College and has written professionally for more than 35 years. He is a member of the Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association, the Center for Fiction in New York and the Royal Society of Literature in London. As well as "For the Beauty of the Earth," he has published five other novels: "AmericA, Inc.", "Bloomsday", "Bourbon Street", "The Day Trader" and "The Silver King." He wrote a tragicomic stage play, as an American sequel to James Joyce's "Ulysses," entitled "Bloomsday," and has adapted his novel, "AmericA, Inc.", for the stage. Lentz has published a volume of poetry, "Old Greenwich Odes", and is a member of the Academy of American Poets. His "Novel Criticism" offers to readers of novels a new model of critical literary theory. His collected literary works are published in a volume entitled "Essential Lentz." Lentz has lived in the Garden District of New Orleans, Boston's Back Bay, Houston, Philadelphia's Main Line and Greenwich, Connecticut. He has served Bates College as an Alumnus-in-Admissions, the Board of Directors of the New Orleans Ad Club, the Philadelphia Mayor's Council for Literacy, Stamford-Greenwich Literacy Volunteers of America, Midnight Run for New York City Homeless, Hurricane Katrina JazzAid: New Orleans, Hope + Heroes Children's Cancer Foundation, St. Baldrick's Foundation for Children's Cancer Research, Healing the Children (Board) and St. Paul's Chapel as a Volunteer at Ground Zero.