Eldon Cene

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

(1927 - 2012)

Eldon Cene died in Lompoc prison in 2012 after writing 31 unpublished novels. (The second to the last of which, The Cognitive Web - the second in a trilogy - is featured here.)

Eldon often said that incarceration was “the best thing that ever happened to me. I got three squares and all the privacy any man could afford. I could never actually kick being a criminal. I’d thought it was just my true nature until I got in here and realized that all I really wanted to do was to write and make up shit. After that, I was through stealing. But I was still incarcerated.”

He is currently buried in a potter’s graveyard just outside the prison walls. “It’s the only way some of us are ever getting out of here,” he remarked.

He was born Sheldon Garvey in Pine Rock, Texas. But adopted Eldon Cene as his pen name, “’cause it sounded better,” he said, “and like any good second-story man, I was (s)seldom seen”. All rights are controlled by Magic Bean Books.

- Carl Nelson, Executor