William Elliott Hazelgrove

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William Hazelgrove ] ]Born in Richmond, Virginia, and carted back and forth between Virginia and Baltimore, I blame my rootless, restless personality on my father. He was and is a traveling salesman with a keen gift of gab, great wit, a ready joke, and could sell white tennis shoes to coal miners. It was during these sojourns up and down the east coast I soaked up the stories that would later be Tobacco Sticks and Mica Highways. I think authors should exploit their family history before raping the rest of the culture for material. Dad finally got tired of the east and moved to the Midwest when I was fourteen. We settled outside of Chicago. It is here I came of age and went off to college for seven years -- two degrees and one novel later I returned to Chicago and lived in many different apartments, trying to get a little two hundred page manuscript called Ripples published. When a local printer said he would take a chance on my book, I jumped and had my first novel published by a man who had never published anything. Great reviews and moderate sales put me back to my jobs as a janitor, baker, waiter, construction worker, teacher, real estate tycoon, mortgage broker, professor, security guard, salesman -- anything to make a buck and keep writing. The printer lost his mind and published my second novel, too. That landed me with Bantam after some rave reviews and a paperback auction for my second novel, Tobacco Sticks. A third novel, Mica Highways, was sold on less than one hundred and fifty pages to Bantam and then I did a strange thing -- I settled down to writing in Ernest Hemingway's birthplace in Oak Park, Illinois. I have since been looking for the Great American Novel up in the old red oak rafters and I think I might have finally found one... we'll see. www.billhazelgrove.com [1]: http://www.billhazelgrove.com

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Dead Air
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Al Capone and the 1933 World's Fair
Representative edition published 2017
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Al Capone and the 1933 World's Fair Lib/E
Representative edition published 2017
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Tobacco Sticks
Representative edition published 1995
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Rocket Man
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Last Charge of the Rough Rider
Representative edition published 2025
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Greed in the Gilded Age
Representative edition published 2024
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Sally Rand
Representative edition published 2022
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Writing Gatsby
Representative edition published 2022
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One Hundred and Sixty Minutes
Representative edition published 2021
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Sally Rand - American Sex Symbol
Representative edition published 2020
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Henry Knox's Noble Train
Representative edition published 2020
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Shots Fired in Terminal 2
Representative edition published 2018
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Wright Brothers, Wrong Story
Representative edition published 2018
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My Best Year
Representative edition published 2016
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Jack Pine
Representative edition published 2015
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Pitcher 2 :
Representative edition published 2015
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Real Santa
Representative edition published 2014
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Pitcher
Representative edition published 2014
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Mica Highways
Representative edition published 1998
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