R. F. Laird Resumè
ABOUT THE AUTHOR R. F. Laird emerged on the literary scene with the publication of The Boomer Bible in 1991. It has enjoyed a long and controversial history (88,000 copies sold), as has its reclusive creator. At the time of its release, the 880 page work was announced by The Wall Street Journal as “a sprawling, wickedly funny rewriting of the Bible meant to sum up a generation.” The San Francisco Chronicle hailed it as “One of the oddest, darkest, funniest, smartest and most innovative books to come along in years.” In the same month, the book editor of the New York Times informed the publisher’s publicist that “the Times will never review The Boomer Bible.” And thus began the complicated writing career of the Jersey boy who graduated from Harvard at the age of 19 and got himself banned from American book publishing with his second, even more controversial manuscript, a mock nonfiction work satirizing feminism, social science, and recently divorc...