The Moon Butter Route

Max Yoho's work is fictional, but always has the feel and tone of reality--the way his characters speak and move and live. This is original, enjoyable writing and most of all, it's fun. Almost everything that Max writes about has a sizable amount of humor. It's warm and genuine and the truth is somehow interjected into it in mysterious ways. Max has a way of spinning a yarn that no one else seems to have captured in recent years.--quoted from nomination for Kansas Governor's Arts Award 2006 by Bill Shaffer, Producer/Director, KTWU Channel 11

Born in 1934 in Colony, Kansas, Max grew up in small towns. Moving with his family to Atchison at age 10, he soon learned that delights and adventures along the Missouri River awaited just outside the well-oiled hinges of his bedroom window screen. Max graduated from Topeka High School and attended Washburn University in Topeka, where he was a feature writer for The Washburn Review.A former milk delivery boy himself, after a thirty-eight year career as a machinist Max retired in 1992 to begin a new career as a writer. His first novel, THE REVIVAL, won the J. Donald Coffin Memorial Award of the Kansas Authors Club in 2002. FELICIA, THESE FISH ARE DELICIOUS, his collection of poems, essays and short stories, was nominated for this same award in 2005.