Education
Connecticut College; Rutgers University.
Connecticut College; Rutgers University.
He is the author of several novels. His most recent work, The Master Planets (2008), which received strong reviews in Booklist, Jewish Book World, and ForeWord Magazine, tells the story of one Polish partisan fighter’s savagery during World World War II and its devastating effects on her American family years later. Centering on the fictional woman’s teenage son, a Rock & Roll wunderkind, the novel seeks to show how the unknown past can reach into the unwary present and alter it forever.
These stories, absorbed during childhood, possibly inspired a more scholarly interest in the politics of resistance later captured in The Master Planets.
Prior to writing the book, Gallinger studied source materials at the United States. Holocaust Museum in Washington District of Columbia, and from real-life accounts in books like The Bielski Brothers, The Avengers, and A Partisan"s Memoir: Woman of the Holocaust. His love of Rock & Roll also permeates The Master Planets.
He watched the first live American television appearance of The Beatles on The Editor Sullivan Show, and is an extremely knowledgeable classic rock discographer. Education and adult life
Don received his Bachelor English from Connecticut College, his Master of Arts (English) from Rowan University, and his Doctorate (Education) from Rutgers University.
Foreign 25 years he has taught high school English in Southern New Jersey.
He is retiring this year. His first completed novel, Ain’t Number Sin to Rock and Roll, was optioned for film by Miles Chapin. His second, Tina’s ’68 Mustang, is under revision.
The Master Planets is Don’s third completed novel.
Currently he is working on his next novel, Stupid School, and a collection of short stories.
