![]() The family moved frequently, living at 10 different addresses, usually in poor neighborhoods over the next 12 years. In 1951, after a year in Santo, Speck moved with his mother, Lindberg, and sister Carolyn to East Dallas. In 1952, Speck's eldest brother, Robert, died in an automobile accident at the age of 23. Speck and his sister Carolyn stayed with their married sister Sara Thornton in Monmouth for a few months so Speck could finish second grade, before joining their mother and Lindberg in rural Santo, Texas, 40 miles (64 km) west of Fort Worth, Texas, where Speck attended third grade. Lindberg was also a hard drinker unlike Speck's father. Lindberg was a traveling insurance salesman from Texas, with a 25-year criminal record that ranged from forgery to several DUIs. She and Lindberg had met during a train ride to Chicago. On May 10, 1950, three years after the death of his father, his mother Mary married Carl August Rudolph Lindberg in Palo Pinto, Texas. Speck was reportedly very close to his father. In 1947, when Speck was six years old, his father died from a heart attack at the age of 53. His father worked as a packer at Western Stoneware in Monmouth having previously worked as a farmer and logger. His mother was religious and a teetotaler. 1943) were much younger than their four older sisters and two older brothers. The family moved to Monmouth, Illinois, shortly after Speck's birth. Richard Benjamin Speck was born in Kirkwood, Illinois in 1941 and was the seventh of eight children of Benjamin Franklin Speck and Mary Margaret Carbaugh. ( June 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources at this section. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. He lives in Orange, California.This section relies largely or entirely upon a single source. The son of a career Navy officer and an anthropologist mother, he grew up in Washington, D.C., Florida, California and Italy attended middle school and art school in Italy received degrees in English and writing from Claremont McKenna College and the University of California at Irvine has three wonderful grown children (Annie, Ben and Liz) and is married to choreographer Amelie Hunter. His interests include cultural anthropology, creativity theory, storytelling, popular culture and popular fiction, Early Man archeology, advertising and the media, science and multicultural education, theory and methodology in the social and natural sciences, the Vietnam War, U.S. At a private university in southern California, where he taught writing for twenty-four years, he helped establish and direct the Creative Writing Program, directed both the Professional Writing Track of that program and its Communications Internship program, received various teaching and service awards, and was Distinguished Professor of Literature and Writing. In 2017 actor LeVar Burton ( Star Trek, Reading Rainbow) chose a story of Bruce’s to launch his new podcast, with an interview shortly after that and that same year the BBC did a story on another project from Bruce’s formative years as a writer.īruce has been a writing coach and consultant on a wide range of popular books for major and smaller publishers and scientific books published by scholarly presses, including Pulitzer and National Book Award nominees and a facilitator of autobiography and memoir workshops. In 2011 the Paris Review did a story on a symbolism questionnaire Bruce sent to 150 famous writers in high school, and the story went viral on social media and continues to periodically. His poetry and experimental work have appeared in literary quarterlies and anthologies he has co-edited magazines and anthologies and his articles on popular science, writing craft and sports have appeared in publications like Life, International Wildlife, The Writer and newspapers across the country. and foreign magazines and journals, and reference works for major publishers and literary presses. His fiction has been translated widely and received national awards and notable mentions in the New York Times, other U.S. His most recent novel, the autobiographical The Village Sang to the Sea: A Memoir of Magic, was a Cibils and Locus nominee. His second novel, Dream Baby, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship winner, was called a "stunning tour de force" by Publishers Weekly. As a writing coach, he specializes in all kinds of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and screenplays.īruce's literary and genre fiction has appeared in national magazines, literary quarterlies, college textbooks and 'year's best' anthologies. Bruce McAllister is an award-winning West-Coast-based writing coach, writer in a wide range of genres, consultant in the fields of publishing and Hollywood, workshop leader and an "agent finder" for both new and established writers.
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