Learning How: Stories, Yarns & Tales

by Richard Hague

Here is a fine story teller stretching our world to include the rich and colorful Appalachia of his experience. The stories range from urban to back woods, but the telling is always the grandest part of any story, and these are told in authentic voice. These 22 stories, tales, or yarns are full of action and intrigue. Hague is a master story teller and handler of dialect and rich character. Don't miss it.

216 pages, Paperback

First published August 11, 2011

About the author

Richard Hague (born 1947) is an American poet and writer.

Born August 7, he was raised in Steubenville, Ohio, in Appalachian Ohio's Steel Valley, where he worked summers for Wheeling Steel and the Penn Central Railroad. He studied as a high school student at Northwestern University's Summer High School Journalism Institute and as an adult in Oxford, England on a six-week NEH Seminar. His BS and MA degrees in English are from Xavier University in Cincinnati. He continues to teach writing to adults and young people in Cincinnati. He is former Chair of the English Department at Purcell Marian High School where the Writing Program he designed and administered won the National First Prize in The English-Speaking Union “Excellence in English Award” in 1994.