John Thomas Chiles

Though Possum King author John Thomas Chiles has worn many job titles from night club bouncer to pastry chef at world famous Tavern On The Green,, soldier, student, taxi driver, you name it, his heart has always belonged to the written word. Though he has wandered many places, he has always come home to the South, where he currently resides. His literary heroes are Donna Tartt, William Faulkner, and William Styron. He considers writing a kind nonsexual masochism in which the writer must subject himself or herself to in order to derive any sort of self-actualization. In that way, the author believes, the writer finds his kinship to God.