Jan 3, 2010
Thad Beaumont, a novelist and professor of creative writing at the University of Maine. At eleven years of age, Thad began to suffer blackouts, preceded by the sound of sparrows. When neurologist Hugh Pritchard operated, he removed the fetus of a twin that had been absorbed into Thad’s head while both were still embryos. As an adult, Beaumont has published novels that were praised by critics but not widely read. To cure a writing block, Thad writes, under the pseudonym George Stark, violent novels about Alexis Machine, a sadist who kills evildoers. These...
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