{"id":991,"date":"2012-03-22T00:16:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T00:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaeltuckerauthor.com\/aquarius_falling\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2020-11-01T07:32:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T07:32:29","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/michaeltuckerauthor.com\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mike_l\"Michael J. Tucker<\/strong> grew up in the cold northern climate of Pittsburgh, PA, and an only child, he was often trapped indoors and left to his own devices, where he would create space ships out of cardboard boxes, convert his mother\u2019s ironing board into a horse and put on his Sunday suit and tie and his father\u2019s fedora and become a newspaper reporter or police detective. This experience left him with an unlimited imagination and the ability to write electrifying short stories and novels. <\/p>\n

Mike is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, Aquarius Falling<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and Capricorn\u2019s Collapse<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

His Published Short Stories Available on Amazon<\/a><\/strong> are: Girl You\u2019ll Be a Woman Soon<\/em><\/strong>, The New Neighbor<\/em><\/strong>, The Hemingway Notes<\/strong><\/strong>, The King\u2019s Man<\/em><\/strong>, and the Amazon<\/strong> best selling short story series, Katie Savage<\/em><\/strong>, and The Gardner Painting: A Katie Savage Story<\/em><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

In addition to his poetry collection, Your Voice Spoke To My Ear<\/em><\/strong>, his work also appears in the Civil War Anthology, Filtered Through Time<\/em><\/strong>, and By Blood or By Marriage<\/em><\/strong>, a Harpeth River Writers Anthology. <\/p>\n

Reviewers of Mike\u2019s novels have compared his writing to: Thomas Wolfe\u2019s I Am Charlotte Simmons<\/em>, and J. D. Salinger\u2019s Catcher in the Rye<\/em>. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Albert Beckus, Professor Emeritus of Literature at Austin Peay University recently wrote of his novels: \u201cThey move naturalistically in the American literary tradition of Theodore Dreiser\u2019s An American Tragedy<\/em>, but with a twist\u2026as found in The Great Gatsby<\/em>.\u201d<\/strong>
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