The Fall of Declan Curtis (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781945772399)

John Jeremiah is the product of a Jesuit education which equipped him to take any side of an argument. He hitchhiked around the USA and spent time following the Grateful Dead and trying to write short stories. His wanderings brought him to an old colonial seaport town on the Massachusetts coast. He fell in with a group of artists, writers and musicians who occupied semi-abandoned mill buildings. Eventually, he made his living restoring 17th and 18th century homes. After being disastrously burned in a house fire, he turned to the more genteel trade of antique dealer. This led to a growing expertise in antique oriental rugs. He spent many years as a gallery owner and international traveler and trader in old Persian carpets. He wrote and lectured extensively on that subject and is an internationally recognized expert. Four of his short stories have recently been published on Akashic Books' website. He is an alum of the Yale Writers' Conference in 2014 and 2015, where he workshopped part of this novel. A second book about Declan Curtis is in the works.