Strange what you can find on the Internet
I found my name in a news story from the Fort Lee Patch.
Cole Middle School Students Win Big in National Letter Writing Contest
Several Fort Lee students have scored high marks in a letter writing contest that had them write messages to their favorite authors.
More than 69,000 entries for the “Letters About Literature” contest were submitted nationwide, 2,000 of which were from New Jersey. And two of the top winners were from Lewis F. Cole Middle School.
Gavin Lifrieri, an eighth grade student, was the first place winner in New Jersey. Tino Thoon, also an eighth-graders, took second place.
Lilfrieri wrote a touching letter to author Sharon Cheese on how her book, Love That Dog, taught him to appreciate what he had and the family surrounding him. Should he win the national competition, Lilfrieri will be awarded $1,000.
Thoon wrote a letter to author John C. Wright, on how he found courage from reading The Hermetic Millenia, according to the school district.
Four Lewis F. Cole Middle School students were among the 27 New Jersey honorable mention winners. They are seventh grade student Joshua Yoon, and to eight-graders Minju Kang, Ruth Park and Trisha Sheth.
Funny, I don’t remember getting that letter. I wonder if the students wrote the letters and did not send them?
And my book is called The Hermetic Millennia with two n’s. (I originally planned to call it Hermetic Millenniums, because Bill Gate’s spellcheckers do not recognize the older (and arguably more correct) form of the plural, and I was annoyed at having it appear as an error each time I opened the MS to edit on a different computer. But my editor prevailed upon the more scholarly angels of my nature, and we went with the Latinate plural.)
I sort of wonder how the young man got a lesson in courage out of my book. Sometimes and author does not see what the muse is making him write about.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
