George Brinner

It was true, everyone really did know your name in the small Illinois farm town I called home. Other than from family, little encouragement was given for the writing I enjoyed there early on. It wasn't until a class scheduling error in my first year at university landed me in a creative writing class that those circumstances changed. Although the name of the professor's assistant who taught that class escapes me, his words of encouragement remain - I give him full credit, or blame, for my addiction.

Though my vocation became that of a working artist, a painter of portraits and places in a modern and expressionistic manner, writing has remained part of my daily routine.  

In 2015, thirty some years after an over-night delay that resulted in my extended stay on the Hawaiian island of Maui, I, along with Jodi (Georgette Kaapo‵okalani), my life partner for the last twenty of those years, packed our bags and moved to the middle of the Arizona desert. That is relevant here only because, though the work featured is fiction, that history and Jodi's death six months after our move to the mainland played a major role in the writing of 'Einstein in Flamingoland'.

Other locations of note in 'Einstein' include Winslow, Arizona's La Posada Hotel and the Audubon Zoo and French Quarter of New Orleans that was my home while a student at Tulane University.

A prequel to this surreal fantasy world of Gille Barker moves to Chicago and Indianapolis and Mason City, Illinois, my hometown. At this writing, it is in progress.