Pirouettes Get No Applause In Goldengrove - Tapa blanda

In a race with Death, Katharine Monahan flees her native New Orleans to feast on Life in Paris, France. Feasting too fast leads her to a case of spiritual indigestion and a confrontation with an enemy more formidable than Death.

Leland William Howard was born in Jackson, Tennessee. He attended the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee, and for many years resided in New Orleans where he worked as a hospital orderly, groundskeeper, and secretary. He was also a periodic contributor to Impact, Gulf South News and The Advocate. He was an active member of the Louisiana Gay Political Action Caucus, Crescent City Coalition, and a member of the New Orleans Gay Men's Chorus which participated in the First National Gay Choral Festival held at Lincoln Center in New York City in September 1983. In 1986 he embarked upon a year of study at both the Cours de Civilisation Francaise de la Sorbonne and L'Alliance Francaise in Paris. Upon his return to the States, he studied acting under the late Herbert Berghof at the HB Studio, interpreting the female characters in Shakespeare's plays. In 1990 he acted as administrative assistant and publicist for the summer season of The Millbrook Playhouse in Mill Hall, Pennsylvania, publishing a number of feature and interview stories in local and regional newspapers in Central Pennsylvania, amongst them the Lockhaven Express and The Centre Daily Times. Returning to New Orleans in 1991, he completed his first novel, THE GRASS HUT, and a novella, ON THE EDGE. Since his return to New York, he has written a second novel, PIROUETTES GET NO APPLAUSE IN GOLDENGROVE, which he recently adapted into a screenplay and a short-story collection entitled THE STAIN ON THE PEW AND OTHER STORIES. His latest short story, ELIZABETH, can be seen in the Fall Issue of The Olivetree Review. Leland William Howard is also a subject of biographical record in the Millenium Edition of Marquis' Who's Who in the World (the 17th Edition). He presently resides in New York City with his beloved Bordie Collie mix, Betsy.