Background
Jack Driscoll was born on March 7, 1946, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, United States. He is a son of John Francis Driscoll and Teresa (Rheaume) Driscoll.
Windham College, Putney, Vermont, United States
Jack received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Windham College in 1969.
(The stories in this memorable collection explore the rigo...)
The stories in this memorable collection explore the rigors of life in northern Michigan, a harsh terrain, where winters linger, marriages often fail and the emotional climate can be as severe as the physical one.
https://www.amazon.com/Wanting-Heard-Grace-Paley-Fiction/dp/0870238086
1992
(Perry Lafond, approaching forty, knows he's had a decent ...)
Perry Lafond, approaching forty, knows he's had a decent life with his attractive, longtime wife, Marcia. But he's come to the point, where he is not sure, that he can continue on. In the meantime, there's the question of children. His wife, battling infertility, is obsessed with the idea of having a baby. Perry wants a child too, maybe. Suddenly, he can't keep his mind off other women. In his job as a probation officer, he becomes recklessly infatuated with the pretty, beleaguered wife of a parolee, who has a young child. Perry's own confusion endangers this child, as well as a nephew under his care. Always unflinchingly honest, Jack Driscoll tracks a man's headlong, and just possibly redemptive, leap into chaos.
https://www.amazon.com/Lucky-Woman-Norton-Paperback-Fiction/dp/0393319458/?tag=2022091-20
1996
("How Like an Angel" is the story of Archibald Angel. With...)
"How Like an Angel" is the story of Archibald Angel. With his career going nowhere and a marriage in decline, Angel retreats to a rustic cabin in northern Michigan to make a new life for himself.
https://www.amazon.com/How-Like-Angel-Sweetwater-Originals/dp/0472114719
2005
(In this book, Jack Driscoll renders ten stories from the ...)
In this book, Jack Driscoll renders ten stories from the point of view of characters, aged fourteen to seventy-seven with a consistently deep understanding of each character's internal world and emotional struggles. All of the stories are set against the quiet, powerful northern Michigan landscape and share a sense of longing, amplified by the beautiful, but often unforgiving surroundings. With keen attention to the nuances of his characters and their lives, Driscoll explores both their attachments to the past and their as-yet-unseen futures as he considers relationships between loves, old friends and parents and their children.
https://www.amazon.com/World-Minutes-Made-Michigan-Writers/dp/0814336124
2012
Jack Driscoll was born on March 7, 1946, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, United States. He is a son of John Francis Driscoll and Teresa (Rheaume) Driscoll.
Jack received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Windham College in 1969. Later, he obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts.
Jack began his career as a writer several years before he turned thirty, publishing his first collection of poetry, titled "Home Grown". Other works by Driscoll include "The Language of Bone" (1980), "Fishing the Backwash" (1984), "Building the Cold from Memory" (1989), "Twin Sons of Different Mirrors: Poems in Dialogue" (1989), "Skylight" (1991), "Wanting Only to Be Heard" (1992), "The Goat Fish and the Lover's Knot" (2017) and others.
During the period from 1975 till 1999, Jack acted as a writer-in-residence at Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan. Currently, he holds a post of an instructor at Pacific University in Oregon.
(In this book, Jack Driscoll renders ten stories from the ...)
2012(The stories in this memorable collection explore the rigo...)
1992(Although his father expects him to attend the University ...)
1991(Perry Lafond, approaching forty, knows he's had a decent ...)
1996("How Like an Angel" is the story of Archibald Angel. With...)
2005
Quotations:
"Actors! They travel the world and all they see is a mirror."
"I joke sometimes that I live a protracted adolescence, that a part of me will always be twelve years old."
"If I don't read, I get lonely. If I don't write, I forget who I am."
Jack is a member of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs.
Jack married Lois (Larson) Driscoll, a political science instructor, on December 31, 1989.