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Rikk Dunlap

Born: 1962 in Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Dunlap lives in Richton Park.

Biography: Rikk Dunlap is a maintenance worker at Homewood-Flossmoor High School by day and a writer in his spare time. His novel 'The Christmas Tree Lot', inspired by an actual Christmas tree lot in Richton Park, Illinois, has been made into a Hallmark Christmas movie - 'Christmas Under the Stars.' The made for tv movie will star Jesse Metcalfe, Jocelyn Gauthier, and Anthony Bolognese. Rikk was captivated by a Christmas Tree lot in Richton Park, Illinois, year after year before he finally decided to sit down and write a story about it. After reading the story, his agent got it to Hallmark where the staff there fell in love with it too.


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

E-Mail: believe@interaccess.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rikkdunlapauthor/?ref=py_c
iMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11058460/
on WorldCat: http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=rikk+dunlap


Selected Titles

The angel of dreams /
ISBN: 0966440900 OCLC: 41670280

Self Hope, Park Forest, IL : ©1998.

 

 

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