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Ross, Gary Earl was born on August 12, 1951 in Buffalo. Son of Earl Ross and Marlene (Edwards) Anderson.
(Welcome to Shimmerville . . .The Urban Refugee Camp sits ...)
Welcome to Shimmerville . . .The Urban Refugee Camp sits in the shadow of a crystal gray city. Inside are ghosts in cast-off clothing, wrapped in stolen blankets and damp sleeping bags, human detritus left in the wake of a changing world and unseen by the city that grows with no thought of the bones beneath its cornerstones. For the almost dead, there is nowhere else to go . . . An old man and his daughter appears at the gate one evening in early October. The air is just beginning to grow its winter teeth and the homeless inside are starting to realize how flimsy their clothing really is. The old mans voice is rich and thick and sweet, like Turkish coffee with too much raw sugar. The camp has never had a storyteller before . . . Praise for The Wheel of Desire and Other Intimate Hauntings :A classic storyteller ... Red Shoe Diaries grafted onto The Twilight Zone ... with proud African-American men and women. The Buffalo NewsSerlingesque ... seductive resonance ... universal themes of joy, pain, sex and wonder ... with peeks into obsession and solitude. The Boox ReviewRaw, basic, sensual, sexual, erotic, erratic emotions...Literary elegance... Joan Albarella, author of Agenda for Murder and Called to Kill
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(At the dawn of the 20th Century, the first city lit by el...)
At the dawn of the 20th Century, the first city lit by electricity-Buffalo, New York-hosts a dazzling World's Fair to showcase America's march into the future. Unknown to organizers, the bold grandsons of a runaway slave plan to conquer the sky during a fateful presidential visit. They intend to show the world that nothing is more powerful than mankind's oldest dreams-flight and freedom-meeting imagination in an age of possibility.
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(WINNER of THE 2005 EDGAR AWARD for DRAMA from MYSTERY WRI...)
WINNER of THE 2005 EDGAR AWARD for DRAMA from MYSTERY WRITERS of AMERICA, WINNER of THE 2005 EMANUEL FRIED AWARD for OUTSTANDING NEW PLAY, and a 2009 SELECTION for the NAAA PLAY READING FESTIVAL in London. It is 1960. Kennedy and Nixon are vying for the White House as lunch counter sit-ins spread throughout the South. Sam Cooke is on the radio, and The Untouchables is on television. Buffalo, New York, has so few black women lawyers they can be counted on a single hand. In this stirring legal drama, one of them, Temple Scott, is locked in the courtroom fight of her life. There is no doubt the young woman the press calls "the Negro Lizzie Borden" murdered her employer. To keep Mae Lou McKitchen out of the electric chair, however, Temple must uncover the truth behind the crime. Murder, you see, is always a matter of intent. "A crime without a witness, a society without perspective, a criminal justice system that is anything but just."--The Buffalo News
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(Murder Squared-the play the Buffalo News called "a most e...)
Murder Squared-the play the Buffalo News called "a most entertaining evening of theater." Four stories, four crimes, four surprises. One singular evening of mystery and the unexpected. Inspired by The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Murder Squared is a celebration of the classic suspense story, by an Edgar-winning mystery writer. As Artvoice noted, "In addition to being playfully clever, these are delightfully fun and entertaining." Also included, from Buffalo's Infringement Festival, are three additional short plays, each with its own wicked twist.
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(Shimmerville sits in the shadow of a crystal gray city. B...)
Shimmerville sits in the shadow of a crystal gray city. Behind its concertina wire fences are old tents and lean-tos of corrugated fiberglass or plastic sheeting tacked to wooden frames. Inside these are ghosts in cast-off clothing, wrapped in stolen blankets and damp sleeping bags, human detritus left in the wake of a changing world. These ghosts never walk the night. They are permitted to leave the compound only by day, to seek handouts or housing or temporary work. There are makeshift kitchens that serve hot food and businesses that let the indigent sweep sidewalks or shovel snow. There are union-free construction sites and just-opened enterprises—like the almost finished Destiny One Bank, the Clark Industrial Museum, the Tremaine Hotel and Casino—where the strongest haul lumber or move stones or unload trucks, for a few dollars and a cup of coffee. The luckiest find residential social programs with a vacancy or long-term medical research projects with an open bed. But most of those who live in Shimmerville are unseen by the city that towers above them, that grows upward and outward with no thought of the bones beneath its cornerstones. At dusk the ghosts trudge back to the urban refugee camp, the URC, for if they are not inside by dark, they will be locked out—and there is nowhere else to go. An old man and his daughter appear at the gate one evening in early October, just as the air is beginning to grow its winter teeth. The old man’s voice is rich and thick and sweet, like Turkish coffee with too much raw sugar. The camp has never had a storyteller before . . .
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Ross, Gary Earl was born on August 12, 1951 in Buffalo. Son of Earl Ross and Marlene (Edwards) Anderson.
Bachelor in English, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1973; Master of Arts in Humanities, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1975.
Secondary English teacher Buffalo Public Schools, 1973-1976, Canisius High School, Buffalo, 1976-1977. Writing instructor Educational Opportunity Center State University of New York, 1977—1994, associate professor, 1994—2003, professor, since 2003. Writing instructor Upward Bound State University of New York, Buffalo, summers since 1980, acting director, summer 1984.
Presenter in field, United States, Canada, Europe, since 1975. Reader various professional fiction readings, since 1985. Board directors Just Buffalo Literacy Center.
(WINNER of THE 2005 EDGAR AWARD for DRAMA from MYSTERY WRI...)
(At the dawn of the 20th Century, the first city lit by el...)
(Nickel City Nights is a collection of erotic writing--poe...)
(Murder Squared-the play the Buffalo News called "a most e...)
(Shimmerville sits in the shadow of a crystal gray city. B...)
(Welcome to Shimmerville . . .The Urban Refugee Camp sits ...)
Board directors Ujima Theatre Company, 2005—2007. Member Niagara Erie Writers (chairman board directors 1987-1989), Just Buffalo, Inc. (fiction resident 1987, 92, board directors 2003-2009), Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association (board member, president 2006-2007, film chair, comics chair), United University Professions, Association Teaching Artists (board directors 2003-2006).
Married Katharyn Ellen Ketter, December 23, 1970 (divorced 1993). Children: Colleen, Timothy, David. Married Patrice Lynette Cox, August 14, 1999, (divorced 2008).
Children: Cody, Madelynne.