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Brian Hammond is a former English teacher in the Minnesota Community College system with degrees in Humanities, Psychology, Education, and English. He is the author of several other books. Two are short story collections entitled The Juvenile Stories and Happily Ever After. His book Keep Harmon Open: An Urban Homesteader's Journal is a satiric account of inner-city life which was also included in an anthology called Downtown. He has written two other novels: When the Revolution Comes is set in the "counter-culture" years of the late sixties and Anima: An Archetypal Novel, which takes place in Zurich during 1916, tells of the crisscrossed paths of four of the most radical and visionary historical personages of the early 20^th century.

Hammond has three other pursuits he has been engaged in for some fifty years. As a guitarist, he has taught, composed, and performed in a college 'psychedelic' band (replete with strobe lights and amplifier feedback), was a bassist in an African Fiesta band, and played in a guitar and piano duet. Currently, he is involved in putting together a jazzy-blues repertoire (hoping to finish it before arthritis has its way.)

Along with writing and music, he has worked with many art forms, from watercolor, ink, and acrylic; sculpture and woodburning; to stencils, photography, and collage. Hammond studied Tai Chi Chih over four years with Richard Harris and co-facilitated a group of men in a dance form or artsport called contact improvisation. An avid tennis player for thirty years, Hammond, now at 73, considers himself an 'advanced' walker.

As an advocate of the humanities, the author still has strong academic interests in the early and high Modernist Movement in the arts and literature from 1880-1930, literary theory and criticism, epistemology, and cognitive science.

He is a fan of the novelists Ian McEwan, Don DeLillo, and the late Jim Harrison. Last summer, he enjoyed Toni Morrison's novel Jazz, as well as lamented her passing.