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He was predestined for literary greatness. If only his father hadn't used up all the words. As the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Eberhart, Dikkon Eberhart grew up surrounded by literary giants. Dinner guests included, among others, Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, W. H. Auden, and T. S. Eliot, all of whom flocked to the Eberhart house to discuss, debate, and dissect the poetry of the day. To the world, they were literary icons. To Dikkon, they were friends who read him bedtime stories, gave him advice, and, on one particularly memorable occasion, helped him with his English homework. Anxious to escape his famous father's shadow, Dikkon struggled for decades to forge an identity of his own, first in writing and then on the stage, before inadvertently stumbling upon the answer he'd been looking for all along - in the most unlikely of places. Brimming with unforgettable stories featuring some of the most colorful characters of the Beat Generation, The Time Mom Met Hitler, Frost Came to Dinner, and I Heard the Greatest Story Ever Told is a winsome coming-of-age story about one man's search for identity and what happens when he finally finds it. This item is Non-Returnable.



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Dikkon Eberhart

The Time Mom Met Hitler, Frost Came to Dinner, and I Heard the Greatest Story Ever ToldMemoir, Tyndale House Publishers, June 2015. In my new book, you'll read about the literary crafting of my name by my poet father, Richard Eberhart. Dad was a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Bollingen Prize, and others. He served as United States Poet Laureate and for many years as New Hampshire Poet Laureate. Dad's poetic voice gave me a rhythm, a rhyme, and enriched me with poetic references. My poet father molded me as I sought to know our Father. In my book, you'll read stories of my encounters with famous poets, actors, folk singers - even a famous spy - and with the others who were drawn to Dad's and Mom's cordiality. I followed God - in the negative or in the positive - through early agnosticism, through many years of Reform Judaism, through a later flirtation with Orthodox Judaism, and then finally, in older age, into evangelical Baptist Christianity. Read about how Dad's poetic soul made this pilgrimage easier and harder at the same time. Lots of writer day jobs - cab driver, gardener, baker, sales clerk, chef, teacher. Once, in Paris, I was a photo model - read the book. After earning a doctorate in religion and art, I did a stint as a seminary administrator. Then - the career job - I spent 28 years selling books and software to lawyers in Maine, New Hampshire, and northeastern Massachusetts, first for Shepards/McGraw-Hill, then for Loislaw, and finally for Thomson/West. As a young writer, I published novels, On the Verge and Paradise. Later, I published feature pieces and weekly restaurant reviews for Maine's largest newspaper. I founded my own publishing company - Barquentine Books - and published two editions of a Maine dining guide, DB Eberhart's Maine Menu Guide. Now retired from legal sales, I concentrate on writing. I'm married to Channa Eberhart - we've passed 40 years - who is now a partially retired commercial real estate appraiser.We are grateful for our four children and for our son-in-law and three grandchildren.Always have been.Can't help it.Like it.Writing allows me to objectify my experience. Thus I can manage it, shape it, and communicate it back, either in non-fiction or fiction. When I do this well enough, it gives pleasure to my readers.Writing allows me, at least sometimes, to find the truth.Sometimes truth hides behind what is more easily seen. Explorers find what they expect to find, not necessarily what is there.



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