Explore the Novels of Richard Beeson
I try to create fiction that is challenging and intriguing, along the lines of novels written by John Irving, Salman Rushdie, Milan Kundera, Paolo Coelho, and Franz Kafka.
About
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.
For over twenty years he performed as a musician at Lincoln Center in New York City; 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 magic realism trilogy Seduction of a Wanton Dreamer (Learning to Dream, Dreaming in the Afterjoint, and Dreams of a Dying Shaman), the thriller Stonewall’s Head, and a play titled Ball of Plutonium. He lives in New York City with his wife, the songwriter Elli Frye.
News and Blog
More about the dominoes
Stonewall’s Head And now for the thriller, Stonewall’s Head. During the time I was completing Seduction of a Wanton Dreamer,
People ask me: Why Dominoes?
Why did I pick them as a central theme in two of my books? My answer is that they interposed
About those dominoes
A Reader Asked: “Where did your obsession with dominos begin? It seems it might have been nurtured by your parents,