Henry Garfield ( - )

Genre: Young Adult, General Fiction

Belfast resident Henry Garfield has published a series of young adult books (ages 12+) featuring Cyrus 'Moondog' Nygerski, a California bus driver who claims to be a werewolf. Garfield, who moved back to Maine in 2000 after living 16 years in San Diego (you can read his goodbye letter to his San Diego neighbourhood of Normal Heights online), grew up in Blue Hill, spent a year at the University of Maine, and had his first writing job at the Ellsworth American newspaper. Besides writing books, he's also a part-time teacher at Unity College. He's a great-great-grandson of U.S. president James A. Garfield.

His books are Moondog (1995); Room 13 (1997), described as 'a literary ghost story and crime novel with a werewolf....The tale of a young woman who battles a force of ultimate evil in a small California town classroom'; Tartabull's Throw (2001), a mystery/suspense thriller set during the 1967 baseball season, when the Boston Red Sox battled three other teams for the American League pennant -- in this book, Cyrus meets up with Cassandra, who lives on Deer Isle, Maine; and The Last Voyage of John Cabot (2004), a young adult historical novel. A number of his columns for Village Soup, an online community newsletter for Camden/Rockland and Belfast, are available.


Last Update: 08/02/2007

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