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Gregory N. Whitis

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Born

in Gainesville, The United States

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Fiction, Thriller, Male Mid Life Crisis

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twigwrites.com

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Gregory N. Whitis was born in
Gainesville, Florida, raised in Dubuque,
Iowa, graduated from Iowa State University, and earned a Master’s of Aquaculture at Auburn University. After marrying Karen Schimek, they resided briefly in central Iowa. Raising fish north of the Mason-Dixon line soon lost its glamor. He landed a job as a farm manager on Alabama’s largest catfish farm. His church friend and writing mentor, Aileen K. Henderson, suggested that he should write novels about catfish farming. He cranked out Blue Green and Nighthope.
At the age of forty-four, he suffered a midlife crisis, proudly graduating fourth in his class at the Tuscaloosa Law Enforcement Academy. He served ten years as a Hale County deputy sheriff. He’s run in eighteen h ...more

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Author Spotlight on Gregory N Whitis by J Scott Coatsworth

Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. I’ve asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work.

Today: Gregory N. Whitis
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Thanks so much, Gregory, for joining me!

J. Scott Coatsworth: When did you know you wanted to write, and when did you discover that you were good at it?

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