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My Books

The Elba Trilogy

Drew Banks jumping into the Pacific ocean in Punta Mita Porto Vallarta
The island of Elba (Portoferraio) looking back toward Piombino on the Italian mainland
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Early praise for

I Before E

"Complex family dynamics, emotionally charged psychology, generational trauma, and a sexual awakening ..."

- Kilian Melloy, film, TV, theater, & literary critic.

About
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My Story

I’m a San Francisco-based retired tech entrepreneur (NCSU, MIT, Oxford). In my business writing as well as fiction, I deconstruct behavioral patterns in an attempt to explore psychological motivations and deterrents. While my business books examine organizational implications of various social psychologies, I am drawn to fiction as a more intimate medium for delving beneath the surface of an individual.

My Elba Trilogy consists of three novels—Able Was I, Ere I Saw Elba, and I Before E.  While each story is independent, the novels’ plotlines intersect and are thematically linked by the respective protagonists’ struggle with some form of exile.

In the press

In The Press

"…you have written a lyrical, almost poetic novel…It reminds me of Zora Neale Hurston in a lot of ways in

Their Eyes Were Watching God."

Frank Stasio

NPR: WUNC, "The State of Things"

For media inquiries,

please contact Dot Dash Press

Tel: (415) 336-6142

270 Liberty Street
San Francisco, CA 94114

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