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    Jongen's Gift

    By I.M. Tillerman

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    In 1952, when an eight-year-old, South Dakota farm boy is visited by a strange phenomenon in the sky, he wonders if he should tell anyone. But when the bizarre phenomena continues to occur, he eventually learns that though he feels the same, he has been given an extraordinary gift... the ability to fly!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSynergEbooks
    Release dateMay 14, 2013
    ISBN9780744320428
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    I.M. Tillerman

    I.M. Tillerman was borin in 1944 in South Dakota in his great-grandmother’s house. Most of his childhood was spent living on farms near Sioux Falls. In the early 1970’s, after graduating from Augustana and Purdue, Tillerman was hired as a full-time English Instructor at a college in a suburb of Chicago; for twenty-nine years, he taught Composition and Literature there as a Professor in the English Department. He took early retirement and since then has been a full-time author. In the early ‘60’s, while in the Marines, Tillerman married his high school sweetheart, and had a daughter. After his first wife died tragically, he remarried and had two children. Tillerman states that the most profound literary influences on him as a writer are the very authors he taught about in college for three decades: Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Fitzgerald, and Tennessee Williams. The two strongest literary influences on him are the poet, Emily Dickinson, and Hemingway, who wrote: “A writer should be of his great probity as a priest of God. He is either honest or not..., and after one piece of dishonest writing, he is never the same again” (Amen, Papa).

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