William Donnelly, PhD

"Fragment sentences are not the enemy."

Education:

BS, MS, PhD University of Wisconsin (English/Communication). Graduate Library School, University of Chicago. National Endowment for the Arts Seminarian, Yale University. Anthropology Seminar, University of California, Berkeley. Internship, Director's Guild of Hollywood, Studios/UCLA.

Teaching:

Instructor, New Mexico State University, University of Wisconsin Professor, Grove City College. Distinguished Visiting Professor, Chengdu (China) University of Information Technology.

Fiction is my specialty.

Guess the lie(s): I Climbed the Himalayan-peak Taoist temples to look down on the tops of thunderstorms and see Buddha in the clouds at dawn. Internship with Directors' Guild in Hollywood. Researched Jamaican Obeah (voodoo) and, later, its cousin, Juju, in tribal Africa.

Was a newspaper columnist and radio show host. Lived on a Dakota ranch, a Sausalito houseboat, (San Francisco Bay), a post-civil War log cabin near the Mississippi haunted by the former owner.

Was lost, trapped deep, scared in barren Badlands canyons only to find angry Lesbian feminist daughter waiting for me on arid prairie above had somehow wandered into quicksand only to be pulled out by a couple of young boys.

Published stories, encyclopedia articles, co-authored books on film and translations from Chinese.

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