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After thirty or so years living in New York City and hearing untold times, "You mean you're Jewish and you're from Texas"? I decided to put it on paper. I was then sixty-five, after a career in advertising, marketing, and foreign language teaching, and I published my first book. The year was 1998, and the book is called "In Jewish Texas," a memoir of my parents, who fled Russia and Romania to Texas in the early 1900's, of their friends and family, and of my,growing up as a gay kid in Dallas. The publisher is TCU Press, Fort Worth. So, despite New Yorkers' tendency to imagine that Jews exist there alone, I am Jewish and from Texas.
Since 1998 I've published many articles and three more books: "Perfect Mondays," a gay novel; "In the Steps of Mister Proust," a coming-of-age novel; and "Living Alone Creatively," close-up interviews with twelve men and women who are living fulfilling lives without partners.
Now, in summer 2010, I have published a new novel, "Ten Ways to Your Cat's Happiness," from iUniverse, where it has been designated Editor's Choice..
Personal data: I am a serious, humorous, youthful, single Manhattan gay man, in good shape, regular theater and museum goer, an eager reader of mostly Russian, English and good American fiction, active and ready to meet interesting new people--seriously.
My website is: stanleyely.com. My blog address is: adviceon77th.blogspot.com.
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