Louis Phillips

Louis Phillips was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, on June 15, 1942.He started writing at age 6 on his father's Smith-Corona typewriter and he has been typing. hunting and pecking, scribbling, computer entering, saving, deleting, filling up spiral notebooks, file folders, manuscript boxes, and two large lockers of manuscripts.He has written plays, short-stories, poems, humor pieces, and ransom notes.In addition. he may be one of the world's record holders for collectng rejection slips. His notion is that no matter how terrible he writes, somebody is writing worse and collecting a piles of money for his or her work.

Louis Phillips, a widely published poet, playwright, and short story writer, has written some 50 books for children and adults. Among his published works are: six collections of short stories – A Dream of Countries Where No One Dare Live (SMU Press), The Bus to the Moon (Fort Schuyler Press), The Woman Who Wrote King Lear and Other Stories (Pleasure Boat Studio), Must I Weep for The Dancing Bear (Pleasure Boat Studio), Galahad in the City of Tigers, and Sheathed Bayonets (World Audience). Hot Corner, a collection of his baseball writings, and R.I.P. (a sequence of poems about Rip Van Winkle) from Livingston Press; The Envoi Messages, The Ballroom in St. Patrick’s Cathedral and The Last of The Marx Brothers' Writers, full-length plays, (Broadway Play Publishers). Fireworks in Some Particulars (Fort Schuyler Press) is a collection of poetry, short stores, and humor pieces. That book also contains his play – God Have Mercy on the June-Bug.

The only thing that separates Mr, Phillips from Random House is some $800,000,000. If he had lots of money, writers asking to be pubished would be coming to him . In addition to his writing, Mr. Phillips is also works hard at his photography. He lives in Manhattan where he teaches at the School of Visual Arts.

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"If you can imagine the world that might have resulted had Bernard Malamud and

Flannery O'Connor collaborated, then you can understand the country that Louis

Phillips runs through."

Laura Kennelly, reviewing A DREAM OF COUNTRIES WHERE NO ONE DARE LIVE

for Texas Books in Review (l994)

Louis Philips has written some 50 books for

children and adults. Among his publications are

A DREAM OF COUNTRIES WHERE NO ONE DARE LIVE (short stories, SMU Press), THE MAN WHO STOLE THE ATLANTIC OCEAN

(children's book, Prentice Hall), and THE ENVOI MESSAGES (play, Broadway Publishers). He edited THE RANDOM HOUSE TREASURY OF BEST LOVED POEMS and THE RANDOM HOUSE TREASURY OF LIGHT VERSE).

Louis Phillips' most recent books are: THE WOMAN WHO WROTE KING LEAR and other stories (Pleasure Boat Studio), THE KILROY SONATA (a poetic sequence, published by World Audience Publishers), FIREWORKS WITH SOME PARTICULARS (stories, poems, plays, & humor pieces, published by Fort Schuyler Press), and MUST I WEEP FOR THE DANCING BEAR (Pleasure Boat Studio). Pleasure Boat Studio also published two volumes of his new & Selected Poems:

THE DOMAIN OF SILENCE/THE DOMAIN OF ABSENCE and THE DOMAIN OF SMALL MERCIES.

"Phillips is a wonderfully imaginative and original

writer. I don't know anybody who can handle a variety of voices as an astonishing variety of times and places, with the ease and skill he repeatedly

demonstrates."

George Garrett, reviewing A DREAM OF COUNTRIES WHERE NO ONE DARE LIVE

for Texas Books in Review (l994)