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David Biddle

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in Dayton, Ohio, The United States

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http://davidbiddle.net

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Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers, Science Fiction

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Adopted at 9 weeks. Raised well by university professors. Brother is international consultant. Sister is anthropologist living in Australia. Have loved baseball and writing since 1966. Went to Reed College (1976-1980). Graduated with degree in anthropology. 30+ years as environmental consultant. Married and in love now for over 35 years. Part-time freelance writer through it all. Discovered I'm mixed race at the age of 45 -- African and Irish. Three adult sons still find me somewhat amusing.

My second novel, SOUND EFFECT INFINITY, was published in the spring of 2026 by small independent Flat Branch Press. A collection of short stories, LAWNS AND KITCHENS GALORE, is due out in the summer of 2027.

My first novel, OLD MUSIC FOR NEW PEOPLE, was ...more

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Average rating: 3.77 · 74 ratings · 33 reviews · 11 distinct works

	Old Music for New People 3.79 avg rating — 43 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond the Will of God: A Jill Simpson Mystery 3.58 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sound Effect Infinity: Mind control, altered states, and the power of music. 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2026 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trying to Care it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Implosions of America: Nine Stories 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	House Sitting did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jenna's Mother: A Short Story 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Middle Lands: Should You Stay or Should You Go Now?

But this is America in the 21st century. Much as there is a minority who think in terms of aggression and antagonism, most of us just want to live our daily lives and do the best we can getting along with neighbors and co-workers.

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Music, Language, and the Brain

by Aniruddh D. Patel

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The Souls of Black Folk

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Some Trick

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David Biddle answered Goodreads's question: Where did you get the idea for your most recent book? You can find a lot of detail about my new novel SOUND EFFECT INFINITY and how it came to be online. But 50 years ago we were up all night in an altered state listening to Cream, Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, Derek and the Dominos, etc. Loud See Full Answer
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So hard to read all the way through. Painful. But just so everyone knows this is one of the best written heartbreaking love stories I've ever read. Lish is likely our best fiction writer. ...more
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As always, such a great character-based, dreamscape story.
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“People generally don't like feeling life is complicated and strange.”
― David Biddle, Old Music for New People

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David’s Quotes

“He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.”
― Tom Perrotta, Joe College

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“The solution which I am urging is to eradicate the fatal disconnection of subjects which kills the vitality of our modern curriculum. There is only one subject-matter for education, and that is LIfe in all its manifestations. Instead of this single unity, we offer children--Algebra, from which nothing follows; Geometry, from which nothing follows; Science, from which nothing follows; History, from which nothing follows; a Couple of Languages, never mastered; and lastly, most dreary of all, Literature, represented by plays of Shakespeare, with philological notes and short analyses of plot and character to be in substance committed to memory. Can such a list be said to represent Life, as it is known in the midst of living it? The best that can be said of it is, that it is a rapid table of contents which a deity might run over in his mind while he was thinking of creating a world, and has not yet determined how to put it together”
― Alfred North Whitehead, The Aims of Education and Other Essays

tags: active-learning, curriculum, education, life

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“We wake”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek: A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Memoir of Nature, Observation, and the Seasons in Virginia

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