My second book is about a boy who has Asperger's Syndrome and is bullied to the point to where he shoots up his school. I have divided the excerpts from it into three parts: Before, during and after the shooting.
A teenage boy struggling with the coming-of-age issues of sexuality, religion, and peer approval is overwhelmed, but soldiers on. After several years, he comes to understand the family forces that have left him so deeply troubled, and the process of
Will Phillips was born and raised in Texas. He attended high school in Denver, Colorado, and upon graduation, began wandering from one place to the next, living in Bozeman, Montana, Los Angeles, California, and Fort Collins, Colorado. He currently resides in Texas.
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I have wanted to be a writer for as long as I can remember, but it wasn’t until I began my self-education that I realized the kind of writer I wanted to be. Three years ago, I began a rigorous study of classic literature, including Hermann Hesse, Ernest Hemingway, and Jack Kerouac, as well as Dostoevsky, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flaubert, Camus, Steinbeck, Joyce, among many others, not to mention countless poets. I have also studied the philosophers who inspired the themes and topics about which these authors wrote. It was the classic Hessean bildungsroman theme that inspired my coming of age novel, Restless Heart.
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Plano, TX US
Accomplishments
First place in the William Faulkner Literary Competition for my poem "Song of the Vagabond."
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