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Nick Monsarrat

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For many years, Nick Monsarrat was a newspaper reporter, editor and editorial writer, and college-level journalism teacher. He has been writing novels since 1996.
His first published fiction appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine shortly after graduation from Washington & Lee University.
Born in Westport, Conn., and a graduate of Kent School, his newspaper career included service in the U.S. Air Force from 1963-1967, where he was assigned to Clark Air Base in the Philippines as a reporter, writing about the Air Force's jungle survival school, air rescue operations, and base hospital's pioneering work with Vietnam wounded. The experience brought him face to face with the intrinsic cruelty of warfare and the extraordinary humanitarianism
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United States: A Novel

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The title of my novel “united states” is lowercased because we are anything but a united nation. To confront our deeply contentious times, we must do what disparate players in my novel find themselves compelled to do in the chaos of a near-future America: unite in common purpose. The urgency of this truth is made only more apparent by every passing day as we witness senseless, fracturing violence, Read more of this blog post »
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