Chapter Break with Roy R. Behrens

BIO:Roy Behrens is an Iowa-based writer, designer and artist, who taught for 46 years at art schools and universities throughout the country. The author of eight books, he is known for his writings about about art, design and camouflage, and for his illustrations, including the cover of Jerzy Kosinski’s The Painted Bird, and the short stories of Guy Davenport and other well-known writers. He was art director of the North American Review for many years; contributing editor of the New York newstand magazine PRINT; and founding editor of Ballast Quarterly Review. Hehas been a recipient of the Pushcart Prize; was nominated for the Smithsonian’s National Design Awards; and was praised in Communication Arts magazine as “one of the most original thinkers in design.”SYNOPSIS:This book of twenty-five essays will be of heightened interest to anyone who is eager to know about neglected people and events in the history of Iowa and the Midwest. The essays recount the adventures of extraordinary people who tend to be omitted from the standard accounts of Hollywood stars, politicians, and sports heroes—and are of course eclipsed by such memorable films as Field of Dreams. In an effort to scratch beneath the top soil, the author revisits the colorful lives of those who are often forgotten, including those who were born in Iowa, or lived in Iowa—or perhaps only stopped by to visit.LINKS:https://northerniowa.academia.edu/RoyBehrens