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pinterest linkedin facebook twitter goodreads Lewis Buzbee all about books, but for those of you who don't care for books, we've got books Home Books Tarzan Contact Welcome I'm a fourth generation California immigrant who began writing in 1972, at the unripe age of 15, after reading the first chapter of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath . I sold my first two short stories in 1979 and have been published, and unpublished, since. For ten years I was a bookseller, at indie bookshops in the SF Bay Area, and
I've published three novels for younger readers: Steinbeck's Ghost , T he Haunting of Charles Dickens , and Bridge of Time .
My books for adults include The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, Blackboard: A Personal History of the Classroom, Fliegelman's Desire, After the Gold Rush, and First to Leave Before the Sun. My poems, essays, and stories have appeared in Harper's , GQ , New York Times Books Review , Paris Review , Best American Poetry , San Francisco Chronicle , and scores of other magazines and journals. My interviews with Raymond Carver have been widely anthologized and translated into 9 languages, and my one-hit wonder poem "Su