Joe Coomer, born Joseph Alan Coomer, is a fiction and nonfiction writer who lives outside of Fort Worth, Texas, and in Stonington, Maine.
Education
Born November 3, 1958, in Fort Worth, Texas, Coomer attended the University of Kentucky between 1977 and 1979 and subsequently attended the University of Texas at Arlington a single semester. He completed his undergraduate degree at Southern Methodist University in 1981.
Career
Coomer wrote his first books while working at his family"s lumber yard and working several part-time jobs. The book originated as three short stories created for his senior thesis project They were wed in the Coomer family compound on the site of a home they were building.
The couple established two antique malls in the Dallas-Fort Worth area shortly after they wed.
They divorced in 2000. Coomer spends his winters in Springtown, Texas, where he runs three large antique malls.
Azle Antique Mall, Burleson Antique Mall and Azle Maine Antique Barn. He lives in a fairly new Victorian house that he spent a year and a half building in the late eighties, a project he wrote about in Dream House.
Summers, they live in Stonington, Maine, an active fishing village on the coast.
When the weather"s nice, he takes his old motor sailer, "Yonder", on day sails and cruises down east. He chronicled her purchase, restoration, and his stupidities at sea in Sailing in a Spoonful of Water."
The university requested these and also published a 30th anniversary edition of The Decatur Road.