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A public high school English teacher and football
coach for ten years before teaching English two years in a private
junior college, Wayne Holmes was a professor of English at Drury College
in Springfield, MO for twenty-four years. During those last
ten years he also was clearing land and raising goats, sheep, cattle,
horses, mules and stock dogs on the family’s 643 acre hillside farm in
Barry County, MO.
Although students he taught from 1967 to 1990 at
Drury
College may recall
fragments of stories he related during their stay, they will find a
considerably wider range of material in Rocky Comfort.
Old or new, his down-to-earth and sometimes bleak accounts are
often humorous, bordering on bawdy, and iconoclastic as well as
inspiring.
Wayne Holmes was born in Kansas and raised in the Missouri Ozarks near
where he now lives in retirement on the banks of Crane Creek.
He hopes the publication of Rocky Comfort will also
serve as a stepping-stone for the long overlooked recognition he
deserves for his unique interpretation of Shakespeare’s Othello.
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