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Merrill Hatlen [1]

Listed as: 
Fiction Writer
Public address: 
Bloomington, IN
Indiana US
Email: 
mhatlen@indiana.edu
Bio: 

Merrill Hatlen is an award-winning filmmaker, photographer and writer; he paid his dues by typing his first novel on a manual Smith Corona. The course of his life was altered by spending three years in France, inspiring five novels, two screenplays, and a stage play. His most recent novel is The Bard & The Barman: An Account of Shakespeare’s Lost Years, published by Burton Mayer Books (UK).

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Favorite authors: 
Ross Gay Niall Williams Louise Erdrich Nathaniel Hawthorne Robert Louis Stevenson Kurt Vonnegut John le Carré Mark Twain Herman Hesse Lynne Olson
Born in: 
Pasadena, CA
California
Raised in: 
Santa Barbara, CA
California
Website: 
https://merrillhatlen.wordpress.com/ [2]
What I'm reading now: 
There are rivers in the sky by Shafak, Elif
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
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Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/merrill_hatlen [2] https://merrillhatlen.wordpress.com/