Biography joe coomer
Joe Coomer, born Joseph Alan Coomer, is an American fiction and nonfiction writer who lives outside of Fort Worth, Texas, and in Stonington, Maine.!
Born November 3, , in Fort Worth, TX; son of Rufus (a business owner) and Linda (a business owner) Coomer; married Heather Hutton (an antiques dealer and.
Joe Coomer (author)
American novelist
Joe Coomer, born Joseph Alan Coomer,[1] is an American fiction and nonfiction writer who lives outside of Fort Worth, Texas, and in Stonington, Maine.[2][3][4] Born November 3, 1958, in Fort Worth, Texas, Coomer attended the University of Kentucky between 1977 and 1979 and subsequently attended the University of Texas at Arlington a single semester.
He completed his undergraduate degree at Southern Methodist University in 1981.
Coomer wrote his first books while working at his family's lumber yard and working several part-time jobs. His first novel, The Decatur Road, won the Jones Fiction Prize from the Texas Institute of Letters in 1984.
A transplanted Texan, Joe Coomer married into a boating family and has spent a great deal of time off the Maine coast becoming adept at sailing.The book originated as three short stories created for his senior thesis project.
He married Heather Hutton, whom he had met in Taos, New Mexico, in 1986.[5] They were wed in the Coomer family compound on the site of a home they were building.
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