Biography:

Writer; University professor. Born– February 11, 1943, Macon, Ga. Parents– Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Barnwell. Married– Jo Ann Weeks.  Children–two. Education– Coffee High School in Florence; Florence State College  (now University of North Alabama), bachelor’s degree; University of Florida, Ph.D., 1972. Taught at the University of South Carolina, 1971-1977; Columbia College, writer-in-residence after 1977. Member of the Modern Language Association, Authors Guild, American Committee for Irish Studies, International Thriller Writers,  and South Atlantic Modern Language Association.

Source:

Files at Birmingham Public Library and at Alabama Public Library Service; Contemporary Authors online.

Publication(s):

The Blessing Papers. London; Colin Smythe, 1981.

The Book of the Romes.  iUniverse, 2001.

Death of the Camel’s Child. Monje Press, 2011.

The Dungeon below Bling-bling High.  Simon and Schuster, 2011.

I, Lord Several. Monje Press, 2012.

Imram.  New York: Pocket Books, 1981.

The Scheme-of-the-Month Club. Simon and Schuster, 2001.

The Sigma Curve.  New York: Pocket Books, 1981.