David Kherdian

Background

He is known best for The Road from Home (Greenwillow Books, 1979), based on his mother"s childhood—cataloged as biography by some libraries, as fiction by others Kherdian was born in Racine, Wisconsin, in 1931.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, 1960.

Career

Literature consultant, Northwestern University, 1965; founder/editor, Giligia Press, 1966-1972; rarebook consultant, Fresno State College, California, 1968-1969; lecturer, Fresno State College, 1969-1970; official poet-in-the-schools, State of N.H., 1971; editor, Ararat magazine, 1971-1972; director, Two Rivers Press, Aurora, Oregon, 1978-1986. Poetry judge, lecturer, reader of own poetry. Founder, editor (with Nonny Hogrogian) The Press at Butternut Creek, 1987-1988.

Achievements

• David Kherdian has been listed as a notable Author by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Beat Voices: An Anthology of Beat Poetry

    (In the conservative 1950s, a small group of unknown poets...)

  • Asking the River

    (Struggling to come to terms with what life is all about, ...)

  • Forgotten Bread: First-Generation Armenian American Writers

    (Forging identity from loss first-generation Armenian Amer...)

  • The Great Fishing Contest

    (After painstaking preparations with his friend Sammy, Jas...)

  • Monkey: A Journey to the West

    (Part spiritual pilgrimage, part historical epic, the folk...)

  • The Road From Home: A True Story of Courage, Survival and Hope

    ( David Kherdian re-creates his mother's voice in telling...)

  • Place of Birth

    (This is the third and last of David Kherdian's volumes of...)

  • Root River Run

    (The author relates his experiences and explores the joys ...)

  • The road from home: The story of an Armenian girl

    (A biography of the author's mother concentrating on her c...)

  • The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl

    (A biography of the author's mother concentrating on her c...)

  • Come Back, Moon

    (What happens when the moon goes missing? Find out in this...)

  • On a Spaceship With Beelzebub: By a Grandson of Gurdjieff

    (An award-winning author's uncompromising and brutally hon...)

  • Beyond two rivers

    (When Ted and Joe return to the McCable river on a camping...)

  • The Mystery of the Diamond in the Wood

    (Two boys discover a cache of jewelry in the woods, are la...)

  • Lullaby for Emily

    (Written and illustrated for a newborn baby, this full-col...)

  • The Song in the Walnut Grove

    (A young cricket goes out into the daylight in search of a...)

  • The Buddha: The Story of an Awakened Life

    ( A simple, inspiring telling of the life of the Buddha b...)

  • Any Day of Your Life

    (A lovely collection of poems about his wife, their cats a...)

  • Song for Uncle Harry

    (A young boy relates his special friendship with his Armen...)

  • I Sing the Song of Myself: An Anthology of Autobiographical Poems

    (A collection of autobiographical poems by modern American...)

  • Taking the Soundings on Third Avenue

    (Poetry about city life and his experiences and surroundings.)

  • Country, Cat, City, Cat

    (Poems about cats, the city, and the country.)

  • It Started With Old Man Bean

    (With supplies bought from L. L. Bean's catalog, Ted and J...)

  • I Remember Root River

    (Book by Kherdian, David)

  • Threads of Light: The Farm Poems Book III and IV

    (poems by david kherdian)

  • The Song of the Stork and Other Early and Ancient Armenian Songs

    (CONTENTS: Preface; 1. Song of the Bride; 2. On a Little K...)

  • Chippecotton: Root River Tales of Racine

    (Signed by the author.)

  • Six poets of the San Francisco renaissance: Portraits and checklists

    (First edition. Acknowledgment, table of contents, introdu...)

  • The Neighborhood Years

    (Poetry. David Kherdian is the author or editor of over fi...)

  • On The Death Of My Father And Other Poems

    (Poetry.)

  • Homage To Adana

    (poems)

  • The Dog Writes on the Window With His Nose and Other Poems
  • The Song in the Walnut Grove / David Kherdian ; Pictures by Paul O. Zelinsky
  • The Great Fishing Contest by David Kherdian (1991-05-02)
  • I Called It Home 1st edition by Kherdian, David (1997) Paperback
  • Forgotten Bread: First-Generation Armenian American Writers by David Kherdian (2008) Paperback
  • The road from home: The story of an Armenian girl by Kherdian, David (1992) Paperback
  • Beat Voices: An Anthology of Beat Poetry by David Kherdian (1996-09-20)
  • The Song in the Walnut Grove by David Kherdian (1982-10-12)
  • The Nonny poems
  • (The Buddha: The Story of an Awakened Life ) Author: David Kherdian Nov-2004
  • The road from home: The story of an Armenian girl
  • Any Day of Your Life
  • Root River Run
  • The Buddha: The Story of an Awakened Life Paperback April 1, 2004
  • The road from home: The story of an Armenian girl by David Kherdian (1992-08-01)
  • I Called It Home
  • The road from home: The story of an Armenian girl by David Kherdian (1979-05-03)
  • The Buddha: The Story of an Awakened Life by Kherdian, David (2004) Paperback
  • Homage to Adana. Inscribed By the Author
  • COME BACK, MOON - STREET SMART By Kherdian, David ( Author) 2013 Hardcover
  • Any Day of Your Life
  • The Road from Home: The Story of Armenian Girl (Newbery Honor Bk) by David Kherdian (1-Aug-1995) Mass Market Paperback
  • I Called It Home by David Kherdian (1997-11-04)
  • My Racine

Membership

Served with Army of the United States, 1952-1954.

Connections

Married Kato Rozeboom, 1968 (divorced 1970). Married Nonny Hogrogian, March 17, 1971.

Father:

Melkon Kherdian

Mother:

Veron (Dumehjian) Kherdian

Spouse:

Nonny Hogrogian

Spouse:

Kato Rozeboom