GL Dorion

About me:
I live in Thailand with my wife, Uraiwan, three dogs, and granddaughter, Smile, 3, in Issan Province where I am writing new books and maintaining our property which basically has a ranch-style two-bedroom home, numerous fruit trees (banana, mango, cherry, and lime trees) and a tropical fish pond with about 2000 tiny fish, many lotus flowers and some very noisy frogs.
I retired from teaching in 2013 after 13 years in NYC high schools. In 2004, I took a year off, and wrote at Starbucks in Astor Place every day, substantially writing three books, although two -"The Jack Trilogy" and "Desperate Days" - took years to finish.
Back then, I taught English, Global History, and journalism.
Historical fiction has been my favorite genre since my elementary school years. I still recall being fascinated with the 'World History’ textbooks as early as the 4th or 5th grade. In high school, I was independently reading the great Russian writers. I continued to independently pursue a classical education by reading dozens of the ancient works of Greece and Rome while reading classical philosophers up to the more modern ones.
I studied English and journalism at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where I received BA degrees, received my Master of Science in Literacy at Touro College, Manhattan, and took night classes in European history and French Painting at Harvard.
I spent ten years as a news reporter in Boston-area courts. Those years were a fantastic learning experience. I began in 1980 as the Lowell Sun's court reporter in Cambridge. There were nearly 100 prosecutors in the DA's office then. I later took over the Middlesex News Service, and it expanded it by adding a dozen or so client news organizations including the Associated Press. Few people see a murder trial gavel to gavel during their lifetime. I saw about 500. Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and Kafka's, The Trial, were the inspiration behind those years. It's amazing what books can do.

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Jack Part 1 in the Trilogy
Set in the American south before the civil war, Book 1 focuses on some older boys at a Charleston, South Carolina, fictional school who revolt against their teacher over his racist, secessionist teachings. Charleston had rudiments of a public school system dating to the 1700's. Led by the rebel, Jack, the students resist the schoolmaster at every turn. 'A rollicking read,' said one Amazon reviewer.

GL Dorion's Books
A video compilation with a short clip of my wife and grandaughter.

adventure    al queda    american civil war    american literature    antebellum literature    auschwitz    charleston sc    civil war    civil war fiction    confederacy    friendship    heroism    heroism at sea    high seas adventure    high seas chase    historical fiction    isis    middle passage    modern slavery    mutiny    nazis germany    pirates    pirates at sea    racism in 1850s south carolina    racism literature    rebellion    romance 1860s    slavery drama    slavery in fiction    slavery in south carolina    syrian civil war    teaching racism    the holocaust    treblinka    war adventures    war between the states    warsaw ghetto    world war 2