User:RichardStafford

Richard D. Stafford is a Georgia writer who has authored six books, three stage plays and three musicals. His book, The Funeral Club ws nominated for a Georgia Townsend Award for Fiction and then premiered as a stage play in 2005 at the Woodruff Arts Center 14th Street Playhouse. His other stage productions include Best Foot Forward, also a book, which is composed of 200 stories from senior citizens as told to their grandchildren about life and positive character development. The musical was funded by a US Dept of Education grant in 2004. His paly Yours, is based o n 142 authentic love letters between a Northern Civil War officer and his wife. His other books include The Caspian Conspiracy, Summer at Hope's Croft and Beyond the Beach: Stories for Fathers and Sons. Stafford is also the author of a book about the 2008 presidential election: 100+ Reasons to Vote Democratic in 2008. In additon to playwriting and fiction, Dr. Stafford has written over 100 magazine articles including interviews with the late Arthur Miller, Frank Rich of The New York Times, and Edward Allbee.