The Writer

About the Book

This is a love story that belongs to Lily and Biff. It contains much fiction and much non-fiction. There is adventure, mystery, and murder. There are cultural, social and political elements of significance. There is a quest for conscience and there is more. The reader will be left, at the end of this journey, with a challenge which began early in the story---to define the genre into which this story fits.

In addition to the above, this book is a missile through literature as studied and taught by the author, primarily in his native country of America and his often visited second home in Mainland China.

Throughout, it is a call for reading the best literature one can find, and for using it as a resource for your own writing. It also calls for interactivity of the life experiences such as presented herein and encourages intrusion into the narrative, where the author can be closest to the creative force of intuition.

If the unusual style bothers anyone, the author apologizes.

About the Author

Eugene V. Grace, M.D. is an eye surgeon who develops eye centers in Mainland China, with the hope of raising the level of care to international standards. He is retired from his private practice in America.

He has one son and three daughters, each of whom is professional in his or her education and carries on the Christian faith they share as a family.

Dr. Grace served in the U.S. Army Medical Department, beginning as a private and retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. Among his last assignments were Seoul, Korea and The West Point Academy.

He is an active writer, especially in poetry; founded the Friday Noon Poets, developed the American Sonnet form, answered Sonnets from the Portuguese, has several other books.

He believes in the progress in Sino-American relations.