Richard Beeson, Author
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Richard Beeson graduated from the Lakeside School in Seattle (where the young Bill Gates and Paul Allen first encountered computers), before attending Columbia University and the Juilliard School of Music. After graduating from Juilliard he enjoyed a successful career as an orchestral musician at Lincoln Center, performing alongside Beverly Sills, Luciano Pavarotti, and Placido Domingo, among others. In 1987 Beverly Sills appointed him to the position of Orchestra Manager at the New York City Opera. In the year 2000, he left the performing arts so he could return to an earlier passion: writing fiction. Since then he has completed the trilogy Seduction of a Wanton Dreamer (Witch Hampton, Alaskis Island, and White Fountain), the thriller Stonewall's Head, and a play titled Ball of Plutonium.He lives in New York City with his wife, Elli Frye.

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Preface to Seduction of a Wanton Dreamer:

Seduction of a Wanton Dreamer is a testament to pioneers who were in touch with the roar of the universe: people such as Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung, whose views on the power of myth and the immanence of the Collective Unconscious have continually influenced my thought.


Although this novel is not autobiographical, it could not have been written without the experiences of a lifetime, including a brush with a near-fatal cancer in 2004.


The hallucinations and dreams brought on by the cancer and its radical treatment made me realize that, even though I had been striving to achieve a mythic catharsis in my writing, I was being too tame in expressing the view that existence—if not life, then at least some form of consciousness—continues after death.

Following my recovery, I returned to the project with renewed vigor and revised the story, releasing the first print and ebook editions in 2009. Subsequent ebook versions of the full fable and its separate parts were released in 2011. It is my hope that this work truly succeeds in portraying the "roar of the universe."
 

Richard Beeson, 2009, 2011