The Storytellers - Paperback

by Bill Batcher (Author)

Imagine a young man in Ohio quitting his good job with a newspaper, leaving his two young children and his pregnant wife, to answer his nation's call to go off to war and save the Union. And imagine his younger brother who had already enlisted a year earlier but was fighting for the Confederacy! Then imagine their father fifty years before, a child trying to get by on the streets of Baltimore, who in a different war is taken aboard a privateer as her powder monkey. Finally, imagine that these were not fictional characters but were in fact the author's ancestors whose stories of valor in America's wars, along with generous doses of truth-stretching, came down through the generations.

Author Biography

Bill considers himself a poet under construction. A retired teacher with a doctorate in education, he leads a writers group in Riverhead, NY. His short stories and poetry have been published in magazines, anthologies and online collections, and has won several awards. His second book of poems, Celebrations, published in 2014, is available from Amazon. bbatcher@optonline.net