Waitin' For The Train To Come In: A Novel Of World War II
David Garnes is the author of AFTER THE WAR WAS OVER: POEMS OF AN AMERICAN CHILDHOOD and a memoir, FROM MY LIFE: TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES. His work has also been published in many anthologies and academic reference titles. He is the recipient of two writing awards from the Connecticut Authors And Publishers Association. David began his professional career as an English teacher and then worked as a librarian at Columbia University and at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.  Since his retirement from UCONN, he has been a part-time manager and guide at the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, MA and has led many literary discussions for Connecticut Humanities, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is working on a second memoir, LIVING MY LIFE: MORE TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES, as well as a novel set in New York City in the Forties and Fifties. David lives in Connecticut and shares his home and computer with two smart cats, Samantha and Delilah.