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Jack Seville
JACK SEVILLE hails originally from the Western Maryland city of Hagerstown, MD. He is a graduate of Hagerstown Junior College, an honor graduate of Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA and ...view moreJACK SEVILLE hails originally from the Western Maryland city of Hagerstown, MD. He is a graduate of Hagerstown Junior College, an honor graduate of Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA and an honor graduate of the Lancaster Theological Seminary in the same city. He is now a retired ordained minister of the United Church of Christ, having served during his career as a local pastor, a seminary professor, a national staff leader, and a denominational area minister. He presently lives in Oshkosh, WI with Fanny Lee, his spouse of 59 years. The Seville’s have three adult children and three high school aged grandsons.
Seville’s avocations over the years have been in the fields of writing, acting and singing. He has published three previous novels: Through His Eyes Only, Something Due, and Settling Accounts. He has published many professional articles, photographs, ands poetry. He has been seen in theatrical performances in Hershey, PA, Aberdeen, SD, Bismarck, ND, and Oshkosh, WI. From 2012-2014 he was seen on stage at the Cumberland County Playhouse in Crossville, TN where he appeared in the role of Jacob in “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” as the Conductor and a townsperson in “The Music Man,” as Grandfather in “Ragtime,” as the wine seller in “Scrooge, the Musical,” as the TV reporter in “Inherit the Wind,” and as George Rapelyeah in “Front Page News,” a musical about the famous Scopes Monkey Trial in early Twentieth century Tennessee. As a singer Seville has sung opera and Broadway in Pennsylvania and North Dakota, and he has sung with the following choruses of symphony orchestras: the Lancaster Symphony, the Aberdeen Symphony, the Bismarck, Symphony and the Saint Louis Symphony, plus the Oshkosh Chamber Singers.
Seville’s fictional writing could best be termed “historical fiction” where he takes actual historical crises and cultural issues and places ordinary people into the stories. This style gives much realism and intensity to the novels he has written over the years and leads some readers to think that what he writes about must be from first-hand experience or knowledge rather than a fairly fertile and creative imagination. NOWHERE FAST actually picks up the later life of an imaginary Sherriff from Kadoka, SD who first appeared in Seville’s second novel Something Due. Some readers were so taken with the character Dale Walthroup that they suggested Seville try his hand at writing a sequel in which the Sherriff would be the lead character. Others have read Seville’s novels and suggested that they might be easily converted to stage plays, musicals, or movie scripts dues to the heavy emphasis in his writing upon dialogue. Presently, he is working at converting his third novel Settling Accounts to a musical in which the primary music will be contemporary Rap and Country!
You can now read his novella NOWHERE FAST and decide for yourself whether you have discovered a new writer whose style and content matches that evaluation of one critic of Jack Seville’s work who wrote “this man is a gentle genius,” “whose work stands among some of the most creative of persons among us.”view less