User:Gerry Edward Max/sandbox

Gerry Max (September 7, 1945-  ), teacher and writer, is the author of Horizon Chasers--The Lives and Adventures of Richard Halliburton and Paul Mooney (McFarland, 2007) and Richard Halliburton and the Voyage of the Sea Dragon (University of Tennessee-Knoxville, 2020). He attended Lawrence University (B.A.) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (M.A., Ph. D., M.L.S.) with focuses on Ancient History, Classics and Libraries. A number of his features devoted to American writer Thomas Wolfe have appeared in The Thomas Wolfe Review.  A collector and appraiser of rare books, he contributed "Gustave Flaubert--Bibliomania and Bibliology" to Dalhousie French Studies and "Ancient Near Eastern Libraries" to The Encyclopedia of Library History. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.