MR. DICKENS AND THE TIME TRAVELERS

About the Book

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IF YOU MET DAVID COPPERFIELD? Two 21st century teenagers have that opportunity in MR. DICKENS AND THE TIME TRAVELERS Vicki and Ollie, brainy teenagers from Dubuque Iowa defy logic and also gravity when they somehow or other manage to travel back in time to Victorian England and meet their favorite author, Charles Dickens and some of his favorite characters. A gracious host, he takes the twin siblings under his wing and gives them a never-to-be-forgotten tour of London, including a visit to the first world’s fair, the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851, displaying the scientific and industrial marvels of the age; an audience with their majesties, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, a public reading by Mr.Dickens in which he impersonates some of his favorite characters. But will Vickie and Ollie ever get back to the 21st century? Or are they destined to live out heir lives more than a century before they were born? Turn the page to find out.

About the Author

I was born in New York Citry but grew up in a suburban community on Long Island. In elementary and high school,my interests were history and English. Started reading the novels of Charles Dickens when I was twelve and through the years I've read most of them. In the army during WWII but never got overseas. After the war I attended NYU , studying marketing and journalism After graduating, I worked for three years in Washington as a feature writer for the U.S. Information Agency which had been formed to counter Soviet propaganda during the cold war. Among the variety of my assignments was writing the script for a graphic novel titled "Red star Over Islam" which described Soviet infringment on the practice of religion in the Soviet central Asian republics, and a scholarly monograph on the economy of the Peoples Republic of North Korra. After three years in this job, I returned to New York. working for the remainder of my career as a copywriter,later copy chief, for ad agencies with pharmaceutical and healthcare accounts. During this period, I developed and presented a course in medical copywriting at the NYU School of Continuing Education. And, as a freelance assignment from Chelsea House Publishers, I wrote a volume for their Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Drugs","The Origins and Sources of Drugs." When my wife and I moved to the mid-Hudson valley, we participated in the founding of the Lifetime Learning Institute at Bard College and we both presented courses there. I was a regular conributor to JOSLINS JAZZ JOURNAL and THE SIDNEY BECHET QUARTERLY of articles on jazz and pre-rock popular music. I am married to Harriet Hoffman , a retired psychotherapist, and I am the father of a grownson and daughter from a previous marriage.