David Farren

I began using the writing name of "David Farren" back in the 1970s to conceal my identity as the former seminarian turned radical college professor writing about modern-day witchcraft. Despite being on TV and radio talk shows, I was not so sure I wanted the neighbors to know who I was apart from being a teacher.

Now retired from teaching, I am making an effort to rebuild my career as a writer. A few years ago I arranged for my novel "Mendaga's Morning," originally brought out in the United Kingdom, to be reprinted for an American audience and I have now brought out still more of what I wrote long ago but did not get published. There are three short novels bundled together as "Crazy in Los Angeles," a collection of short stories entitled "Redeeming the Cisco Kid," and "Hall the Viking: The Berserker's Code, (commissioned as the pilot for an historical adventure series).

My six word autobiography is "looked for God, had to improvise," and the way I hope to be remembered outside my family is as a teacher, author, and storyteller.