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Henry Kisor

Born: 1940 in Ridgewood, New Jersey
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Kisor moved to Illinois with his family in 1948. He currently winters in Evanston, and summers in Ontonagon, Michigan.

Biography: Henry Kisor is the retired book editor of the Chicago Sun-Times as well as the author of three nonfiction books and three mystery novels. He is also the co-author of one children's book.He pens two blogs, The Reluctant Blogger and The Whodunit Photographer, as well as a series of mystery novels set in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He was the book editor of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1978 to his retirement in 2006.


Awards:
  • '''''What's That Pig Outdoors?'''''
  • -- Chicago Foundation for Literature Award for Nonfiction, 1991 '''Other Awards

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Email: author@henrykisor.com
Website: http://www.henrykisor.com
Henry Kisor on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=henry+kisor


Selected Titles

Cache of corpses
ISBN: 9781511603072 OCLC: 936762432

Forge, New York : 2015.

The peace and quiet of Porcupine City, a tiny town in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, is destroyed by the discovery of a headless corpse, wrapped in plastic and accompanied by clues to another headless corpse.

  Cache of corpses /
ISBN: 076531780x OCLC: 145733036

Forge, New York : 2007.

The peace and quiet of Porcupine City, a tiny town in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, is destroyed by the discovery of a headless corpse, wrapped in plastic and accompanied by clues to another headless corpse.

Flight of the Gin Fizz :
ISBN: 0465024254 OCLC: 36461632

BasicBooks, New York, NY : ©1997.

Henry Kisor, a self-described short, fat, bald, bespectacled, and deaf man, shares the story of how he shook the midlife blues by learning to fly at the age of fifty-three, and takes the reader along on his maiden flight during which he reenacted the 1911 journey of Cal Rodgers from New York to Los Angeles.

One TV blasting and a pig outdoors /
ISBN: 0807560758 OCLC: 29908855

A. Whitman, Morton Grove, Ill. : ©1994.

Conan describes life with his father who lost his hearing at the age of three. A book that describes what it's like to live in a household where the father is deaf.

Season's revenge :
ISBN: 0765306662 OCLC: 52208839

Forge, New York : 2003.

When one of his small town's leading citizens, Paul Passoja, is killed in an apparent bear attack, Lakota Deputy Sheriff Steve Martinez becomes suspicious and launches an unoffical investigation.

What's that pig outdoors? :
ISBN: 9780252090196 OCLC: 815477961

University of Illinois Press, Urbana : 2010.

  Zephyr :
ISBN: 9781511443531 OCLC: 911401613

CreateSpace, [North Charleston, SC]. : ©2015.

Zephyr :
ISBN: 155850477X OCLC: 31755069

Adams Pub., Holbrook, Mass. : ©1994.

 

 

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