Richard Doster

Flannery O'Connor once said that fiction is a plunge into reality and a shock to the system. Her stories, and I hope mine, provide a true glimpse of a broken world--not merely to shock--but to inspire.

My books are, as one reviewer said of Safe at Home, part "comfort food, history lesson, social retrospective, and personal challenge." As you read them I hope you'll take the advice once given by Sir Frances Bacon: "Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider."