Ask the Author: Arthur D. Hittner
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Arthur D. Hittner
I write for the pleasure of writing and without time or financial constraints. Perhaps that has prevented the occurrence of writer's block.
Arthur D. Hittner
Being able to construct an imaginary world peopled by characters who take on a life of their own. I usually write based on a general idea but without an outline or pre-set plot, letting my characters dictate what they choose to do and how they choose to do it. Fortunately, there are more pleasant surprises than dead ends.
Arthur D. Hittner
An offbeat novel about Jake Singer, the only son of overachieving parents, who graduates from lefthanded Little League legend to pro baseball prospect at Stanford. When his budding pro career is shattered by a bizarre case of mistaken identity, he defaults to law school at Harvard. Years later in Cambridge, he meets Kate, lately arrived from Iowa, a perky twenty-year-old waitress with a secret. An unlikely romance blossoms into an unlikely marriage—one quickly sabotaged by a parade of blunders and embarrassing revelations. Haunted by her missteps and in the throes of leaving her beleaguered husband, Kate suffers a catastrophic rendezvous with a runaway Ford F450. While Jake finds solace in an improbable return to baseball, Kate transcends her sudden, tragic death, resolving to redeem herself posthumously, interceding in her widower’s life on the ballfield and in the bedroom in a well-intentioned but often hilarious campaign to atone for her transgressions
Arthur D. Hittner
The book ARTIST, SOLDIER, LOVER, MUSE was inspired by a 1936 painting by the artist Harold J. Rabinovitz (1915-1944). Research on the artist gave rise to "At the Threshold of Brilliance: The Brief but Splendid Career of Harold J. Rabinovitz" (and a magazine article about the same subject for Fine Art Connoisseur). What I learned about the artist was intriguing, and I thought it would be fun to pick up where my research left off, by writing a fictional account of the life of an emerging young artist in the exciting and challenging New York art world of the late 1930s.
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