Jack Boyd

Jack Boyd (1944- ) was born in Detroit, MI to parents who had emigrated from Ontario, Canada. His father took a job with an auto company, and with Jack's mother, raised a family of four children. Jack taught English with the Peace Corps in Kenya before returning to the U. S. and working as a social worker for twenty-five years with abused and neglected children and poor families. The last eleven years, before retiring, he provided services to urban Native Americans living in Phoenix. His first novel, "Mary Wallace Roanhorse" chronicles the saga of a Navajo woman struggling with her identity in a time of a fictional modern crusade. His second, "Made of My father," is a sequel. His third novel, "The Rluctant Volunteer," is the story of an elderly man transformed by his involvement with a terminally ill boy. His latest books include a collection of short stories, “A Book of Stories,” a play, “The Defiant King,” and his latest novel, “The Intimacy of Strangers.”