Kevin Daugherty

Kevin Daugherty is an avid reader, fly fisher, and pretend-to-be former athlete. He has taught English (high school and middle school), coached basketball and tennis, played collegiate tennis, and taught tennis professionally.

In addition to 30 years as a professional educator, he worked for 10 years in the computer industry as a technical writer and editor. He typically began school years by sharing a handmade sign claiming, “‘Work’ is our favorite four-letter word.”

Avocations include fly fishing for trout (or any cooperative fish), kayaking (on tame water), hitting tennis balls (with patient partners), and shooting baskets (in tai-chi mode).

The major portion of the author’s life began, and currently continues (with his wife), in Missouri (initially in Washington, near St. Louis, and presently in Springfield). He spent a 20-year hiatus in North Carolina (10 years in the Research Triangle Park area and 10 years in the mountains outside Asheville).

He is a graduate of the University of Missouri, St. Louis, with a B.S. in Secondary Education/English. The author claims that the mantra “actions have consequences,” which he stressed to his students, has been a major influence in his life. He suggests that who he is and what he has done are the direct results of decisions (for good or ill) made throughout his life.

He typifies his current manuscript as “part memoir and familial reflection, an additional piece of education and philosophy dabbling, and a final portion of fishing adventures or debacles.” The author claims that his literary effort Truth Be Told is a reflection of his “The Rule of Three” theory about writing.