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Michael Daswick

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SoCal, The United States
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Children's, Fiction, Culinary Inspirational!

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October 2018


Michael Daswick is the winner of both of Columbia University's venerable literary awards: The Bennett Cerf Memorial Prize for Fiction and The Cornell Woolrich Fellowship for Creative Writing. This work featured the character Chip Rock, set in the (fictional) deteriorating SoCal beach town of No Palms. The novel CHIP ROCK and the FAT OLD FART followed, as did the collection of connected short stories, HALLBOYS.

Michael grew up in Pasadena, California where he worked in a much-maligned meat market, and played on beaches from Avalon to Zuma. That seedy meat shop and those beaches provide part of the setting for his epic novel, Chip Rock and the Fat Old Fart. Michael’s keen interest in food started in that same meat shop.

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Chip Rock and the Fat Old Fart
4.30 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions
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ZIN MIGNON and the SECRET o...
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Zin Mignon and the Riddle o...
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Chip Rock and the Catalina ...
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Zin Mignon and the Last Supper
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Hallboys
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