YPSILANTI, Mich., Dec. 18, 2002 (PRIMEZONE) -- The often-challenged claim that all creative writing is autobiographical can be skewed into the fact that some autobiographical writings are more autobiographical than others. Such is the case with Laurence W. Thomas' latest book, "Three Autobiographies" (now available through 1stBooks Library).
These three novellas-in-one show many aspects of the author's life from three distinctly disparate approaches.
The Autobiography of Larry W. Larry, set in a city (Detroit) coping with recovery from an undisclosed catastrophe, takes two boys -- who are actually the same since one is dead -- through developmental stages to when the protagonist emerges as a teacher. Flights From Arabia works back and forth from Thomas' teaching English in Saudi Arabia to his many experiences in other places. Although written before current Middle-Eastern problems, basic differences and solutions are still valid. In the third section, Robert Spencer Anderson is not invented from whole cloth, but is woven into a fabric which, taken as a whole, reveals a character not unlike the author.
The book reveals at least three aspects of what makes up all of Thomas' writings: wit and humor; a keen sense of observation; and the power of reacting to and interpreting what life has brought to the author -- or what the author has brought to life.
Laurence W. Thomas has published four volumes of poetry and one of humor. As a teacher, he spent twenty years teaching in Uganda, Costa Rica, and Saudi Arabia plus Florida and his native Michigan. From these experiences, he has gleaned the material for these three novellas. Thomas has found that all experience is inward. Reactions to outward stimuli, internalized, become the individual, separating each person from the other. Living abroad has given the author unique perspectives of his world which he has presented in books of fiction and poetry.
Laurence W. Thomas is active in several writing groups in Michigan and Arkansas (where he gives annual poetry workshops/lectures) and teaches Creative Writing at his local community college.
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