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
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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What's that pig outdoors? : ISBN: 9780252090196 OCLC: 815477961 University of Illinois Press, Urbana : 2010. |
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Zephyr : ISBN: 9781511443531 OCLC: 911401613 CreateSpace, [North Charleston, SC]. : ©2015. |
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Zephyr : ISBN: 155850477X OCLC: 31755069 Adams Pub., Holbrook, Mass. : ©1994. |