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6 days ago · Blog for John Straley, award-winning Alaskan author and former Alaska writer-laureate.
- Solstice — John Straley
Seventy degrees and sunny here in the Carmel River Valley....
- Nancy Ricketts November 28, 1924- June 1, 2024 — John Straley
Nancy Ricketts died yesterday June 1 2024. She was born...
- Solstice — John Straley
6 days ago · Seventy degrees and sunny here in the Carmel River Valley. In the last three days we had high clouds and lower temperatures. The dog walkers were wearing their parkas and the crows sitting on the phone lines had a kind of threatening Van-Gogh-in-the-wheatfields kind of vibe. But the last two days t
Jun 2, 2024 · Nancy Ricketts died yesterday June 1 2024. She was born November 28, 1924. She was almost one hundred years old and she had experienced many of the most important events of the twentieth century. Her father was Edward Ricketts who was a friend and inspiration for John Steinbeck.
Jun 4, 2024 · John Straley said he was pleased to contribute to the book, not only because he’s a longtime fan of “Cannery Row” but mainly to bring to light Ricketts’ other contributions. “If you go to Monterey it’s all about Steinbeck and Ricketts,” he said.
Jun 11, 2024 · While Big Breath In stands alone, longtime Straley fans will recognize the characteristic wit, heart, and contemplation of life that threads through every one of his books—and discover a new heroine to fall in love with.
3 days ago · Mystery author John Straley described Sitka as "...an island town where people feel crowded by the land and spread out on the sea." Part of the action in the novel César Cascabel by Jules Verne takes place in Sitka in May–June 1867, during the transfer of ownership to the United States.
Jun 13, 2024 · She represents literary and upmarket fiction, and her authors include novelists Andrea Bobotis, Leesa Cross-Smith, Nancy Wayson Dinan, Micah Dean Hicks, Leslie Pietrzyk and Liza Wieland, as well as suspense writers Caroline B. Cooney and John Straley.
