Questions For My Father: Finding The Man Behind Your Dad

By Vincent Staniforth

I had ample opportunity to ask Dad these questions when he was alive, But it seemed that a million reasons not to do so could always be found. It was a waste of everything Dad had ever seen, done,  and thought about not to hear his answers, and I regret not finding out more about him when I had the chance. Questions for My Father was borne of that regret and has one underlying objective: to develop a blueprint for discovery so that children of any age can start to build a clearer, deeper picture of the man behind the word . -- Vincent Staniforth

• Language: English
• Publisher: Atria Books/Beyond Words
• Release date: Aug 2, 2011
• ISBN: 9781451654363

Vincent Staniforth

Vin Staniforth was born in England. While honeymooning in the United States, Vin was called home after his father became very ill. His father died two days after Vin’s return, and Vin came to realize how much he still wanted to learn about—and from—his father. That realization was the inspiration for Questions for My Father. Vin lives with his wife and two sons in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Questions

for

My Father

Copyright © 1998, 2008 by Vincent Staniforth

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever without the prior written permission of Atria Books/Beyond Words Publishing, Inc., except where permitted by law.

Managing editor: Lindsay S. Brown

Editor: Marvin Moore

Cover and interior design: Richard Cohn, Fran Lee, and Sara E. Blum

First Atria Books/Beyond Words hardcover edition January 2008

ATRIA BOOKS and colophon are trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Beyond Words Publishing is a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Manufactured in the United States of America

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Staniforth, Vincent,

Questions for my father: finding the man behind your dad / Vincent Staniforth.

    p.  cm.

1. Fathers and sons. I. Title.

HQ756.S74 1998

306.874'2—dc21

97-49136

         CIP

ISBN-13: 978-1-885223-74-6

ISBN-10: 1-885223-74-9

eISBN-13: 978-1-45165-436-3

The corporate mission of Beyond Words Publishing, Inc.: Inspire to Integrity

For

John Staniforth

and for my

sun and moon—

John Harley

and Conor David Edmund

Introduction

This book is the result of long midnight conversations with Dad—but they were conversations that took place in the dreams and