GARY PAUL CORCORAN
Born in Hartford Connecticut, Gary Corcoran moved with his family as a young boy and grew up in the world of orange groves and suburban tract homes south of Los Angeles in the 1960s. Bitten by the wanderlust bug at an early age, he abandoned college and traveled extensively through Europe and the Mediterranean, only to learn upon his return that he had been drafted into the Vietnam War. A child of the free speech, coffee house idealism of the early sixties and a survivor of the psychedelic journey that concluded the decade, he was a draft evader and lived with that uncertainty until President Carter issued his blanket amnesty in 1977.

Author of numerous poems over the course of his life, he began to write fiction in 1992 and was recently named the winner of the Mayhaven Publishing Company’s Adult Novel Contest for 2004 and was one of five finalists in Oak Tree Book’s 2004 Timeless Love Novel Contest for his novel The Last Love of Eleanor Sands.

Mr. Corcoran resides in Laguna Beach, California.