Michael Lund

Michael Lund, PhD, is a scholar of 19th-century British and American literature who grew up in Rolla, Missouri, and lives in Virginia. He is the Director of Home and Abroad, a free writing program for military, veterans, and family. He was a U.S. Army correspondent at Fort Campbell, Kentucky (1969-70) and in Vietnam (1970-71). He is also the author of At Home and Away, a Route 66 novel series. Several dozen of his recent short stories have appeared in contemporary journals, including “Left-Hearted,” Line of Advance (2016); reprinted in Our Best War Stories: An Anthology of Darron L. Wright Award Winners, October 2020: Middle West Press).

His novel series in progress under the pen name TAYLOR CURTIS (click on photo/name top right)),The Persimmon River Novels, chronicles the decline of another American small town; yet individuals are drawn together—instinctively? mysteriously? magically?—to rebuild a community and a tradition.

Route 66 Route 66 Déjà Vu (2023), "is a story of life and change in America during a unique period in American History [and a man’s discovery] that the life that he had thought he had enjoyed was different and more complex than he had realized. . . . his classmates have different points of view and experiences than he does after graduation. . . Who knew that arranging a 50th reunion could be quite such an adventure?

--Larry Sharrar, Military Writers Society of America Review March 2024

Henry Zeybel says Lund "examines local, national, and international mid-twentieth-century problems that still exist today. Naturally, Lund writes about the Vietnam War. He served in-country as an Army correspondent in 1970-71. . . . The book broadens . . . wartime perspective with stories told by friends who were soldiers and nurses. Similarly, the dialogue often sounds as if each pronouncement is a lesson about our nation’s present or past behavior. . . In evaluating [Lund’s earlier books], the late David Willson wrote in these pages: “I highly recommend the stories to all those drawn to serious writing about the Vietnam War and to seekers after the whole story—not just a narrow story told over and over again. The stories showed me what rear- echelon personnel contributed to our war. Thanks to Michael Lund for bravely going with his short stories where no other Vietnam War author has gone before.”

—Henry Zeybel, Vietnam Veterans of America Veteran Books in Review II December 2023.