JACK BEACH (pen name) is a bona fide Yankee. Born in Galesburg, Illinois, he studied at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, U; of Iowa, and Western Reserve U. (Ph.D.). After two decades on the Theatre Facul...view moreJACK BEACH (pen name) is a bona fide Yankee. Born in Galesburg, Illinois, he studied at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, U; of Iowa, and Western Reserve U. (Ph.D.). After two decades on the Theatre Faculty at the University of Kansas, Beach pulled up stakes and headed to Atlanta, where his love of Southern Drama and Literature beckoned. Retiring from Agnes Scott College in 1985, he built a home in Pensacola, Florida, and leased a pad in New Orleans. For years he has been hobnobbing around the lower (decadent) end of the French Quarter, collecting the story gems and oddities revealed as poems and “prose snapshots” in MARDI GRAS: Beads, Belles, and Balls.
Beach has published three previous books with Author House: The Three-Mile Bridge (poems) The Grand Tour (travel poems), and Without a Net (short stories).view less