Writers of the Round Table - Volume 3 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781984163370)

Norman Phillips was born in Ware Massachusetts in 1921 and lived with his illiterate Polish grandparents until he was twelve. A bright young man, he nevertheless failed his junior year of high school. In 1942 he enlisted in the US Army air cadet program and went on to fly the P-47 in combat in Europe. He was a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force when he was shot down over Laos in 1968 while flying an F-105. After a hair-raising rescue, he retired from the Air Force, attended the University of Massachusetts, earned a BFA and an MFA, and then taught sculpture at UMass for nineteen years. Ten years ago he was inspired to write after he attended a memoir writing program at the Exeter library offered by Nancy Eichhorn, PhD. He has published two books, the most recent, Throw A Nickel On The Grass, is available through Amazon or Trafford Publishing. Sharon Fish grew up in Bar Harbor, ME, a place that fostered her love for the natural beauty of the ocean and its surroundings as well as the quirkiness of small-town living. As a result of her husband's career, she has lived in several states including Michigan, Delaware, Connecticut, Illinois, New York, and finally New Hampshire. At age forty she began taking college courses in Rochester, NY and completed her UNH English degree ten years later, after which she earned an education degree from Franklin Pierce University. At age fifty-five she began teaching English at Milford High School until her retirement ten years later, in 2013. She counts those years as "her best ten years," loving her students, literature, writing, and even grammar. She has been a member of the Writers of the Round Table since December 2014 and lives in Stratham, NH with her husband Blake.