User:Edward Hannibal

Edward Hannibal is an American novelist, advertising creative director and teacher of fiction writing. His debut novel, "Chocolate Days, Popsicle Weeks," won a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award, was a Literary Guild Main Selection and a bestsellng paperback. "Dancing Man" and "Liberty Square Station" complete his "Dropping-Out Trilogy." "Blood Feud" is a documentary novelization of the infamous Robert Kennedy-Jimmy Hoffa vendetta. Ed co-wrote it with Robert Boris whose screenplay was made into an important and successful TV mini-series of the same name. "A Trace of Red," Mr. Hannibal's cold war espionage thriller was published by the Dial Press and recently re-issued as an Authors Guild Backinprint.com Edition e-paperback, available at Amazon and other online venues. A new novel, "The Collar," is a detective manhunt story bristling with troubled cops and priests, currently being shopped by his agent. Hannibal is presently at work on a new, long semi-autobiographical novel he declines to talk about, other than giving its working title: "Camels, Chivas and a Smith Corona." On the backburner is See Spot Run, a primer on ad writing for the digital age.

Retired from Grey Advertising as a svp, group creative director, Edward Hannibal lives and writes full time in East Hampton, New York, with his wife and muse, Maggie. He is active in Marijane Meaker's venerable Ashawagh Hall Writers Workshop; regularly presents his six-week ABC's of Fiction Writing course at the Amagansett Library; and is the author of the Feral Cat Poems, a picaresque series popular with many readers of The East Hampton Star.