BARE-BONES BIO |
James Henry Littlefield is retired...again! This is his second try, and he's still trying to get it right. Life keeps interfering. He's an Alabama birth--Montgomery in 1947--was raised in rural tidewater Virginia and schooled and educated there until moving with his parents to California in 1961. Both parents had been professional dancers on the Broadway stage and in ballet, and the paternal branch included well-known personalites in ballet, music, and choreography. His early experiences, therefore, included a wide range of impressions from the arts as well as the natural world. Living on the San Francisco Peninsula in Redwood City and, later, Palo Alto, he's held diverse jobs including supervisor, leadman, consultant, small business owner, administrative assistant, contract inspector, arborist, property manager, and |
free-lance writer. He's also earned a B.S., B.A., and M.A. while employed full-time and raising a young family. Married to the former Joan Layne, he has three sons, the youngest still at home, and their immediate tribe also includes a daughter, a step-son, and three grandchildren. He's been writing fiction since elementary school, and has some small success at free-lancing short stories in the early 70s, selling several while accumulating a fine collection of rejection slips and editor's notes. Resuming efforts in 1999, following his first retirement, he's subsequently published four mystery novels: Fogstalker, Cool Deal, Seaglass Eyes, and Fatal Stretch. Currently, he lives and writes in Aptos, California, a small town on the Pacific Coast at Monterey Bay, loves the area, and considers himself extremely fortunate to be there. Other interests include hiking, swimming, camping, live theatre, trad jazz, rock & roll, surfing, and spending sunny days on the beach whenever possible. |
