About the Author

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My books, stories, articles, screenplays and coaching all have one purpose -- the exploration of the drama and the dignity at the core of all our lives.

It's far too easy to sleepwalk through life, blind to the sagas unfolding all around us, the miracles that occur a thousand times a day.

Whenever I talk to groups, I teach techniques that help everyone -- from middle-school students to seasoned writers -- discover and appreciate the drama that envelops us all.

I've taught college journalism courses, and have spoken to fifth-grade remedial reading classes, and have found that many of the same techniques can help anyone become both a better writer and a more soulful observer.

I have published articles on everything from athe struggles of concrete workers to a profile of an elite art collector in Port-au-Prince Haiti. I've written for the Discovery Channel, the Science Channel and Discovery Health.

But what shaped my life most was my personal trial, a diagnosis of a malignant brain cancer that kills well over 90 percent of victims, a tumor that, for some reason, spared me.

This was the subject of my first book, Magic and Loss, which consisted largely of letters I wrote to my then three-year-old daughter, Emmy, during the darkest days after my diagnosis, when I desperately wanted her to remember me and to know how much I loved her.

Magic and Loss was picked up as a Reader's Digest condensed book Christmas selection published in 17 languages.

I actually wrote the other book, Adrift, several years laters, with Emmy's help, basing it on a series I published in the Virginian Pilot on a shipwreck. That newspaper series consisted of a number of punchy stories with cliffhanger endings. It hooked middle school readers and was used by teachers in Hampton Roads (imagine that, middle schoolers reading the newspaper!). The novel use similar material and is targeted to middle schoolers.

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-- Greg Raver-Lampman