Merrill Hatlen

Merrill Hatlen paid his dues as a writer by typing his first novel on a manual Smith Corona. He subsequently embraced the digital age as a filmmaker, photographer and writer. The course of his life was altered by spending three years in France, inspiring five novels and two screenplays. His attempt to pen a sequel to Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost" was the catalyst for his latest novel, "The Bard and the Barman: An Account of Shakespeare's Lost Years."