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New Town, Edinburgh, 2008
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Gaining Ground farm
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With Scruffy the Cat, 1986 |
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Stona Fitch’s novels have been widely published in the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, and beyond—and have been widely praised by critics and readers or their originality, intensity, and prescience. He also writes literary and historical fiction under the pen name Robert Hendricks.
His 2001 novel, Senseless, has been cited for anticipating violent anti-globalization protests, online hostage-taking, and other political developments. Reviewers have called it one of the most disturbing novels ever written. Senseless is now an independent feature film from director Simon Hynd and Shoreline Entertainment, a graphic novel, and a cult classic.
In 2008, Stona founded the Concord Free Press, a revolutionary publishing house that publishes and distributes original novels throughout the world, asking only that readers make a voluntary donation to a charity or person in need. His novel, Give + Take, the first Concord Free Press novel, will be published commercially in the US, UK, Taiwan, and beyond in 2010. Subsequent Concord Free Press novels include Push Comes to Shove by Wesley Brown and The Next Queen of Heaven by Gregory Maguire.
Stona lives with his family in Concord, Massachusetts, where he is also a committed community activist. He and his family work with Gaining Ground, a non-profit farm that grows 30,000 pounds of organic produce each growing season and distributes it for free to Boston-area homeless shelters, food pantries, and meal programs.
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Born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1961, Stona Fitch grew up in the midwest and south. While an undergraduate at Princeton, he studied fiction with Russell Banks and Joyce Carol Oates, and received the Creative Writing Program's Lannan Award for Fiction. He also served as chairman of The Daily Princetonian, and wrote for The Anchorage Daily News.
After graduation, Stona reported briefly for The Miami Herald before moving to Boston and joining its burgeoning underground rock subculture. In 1984, he joined the seminal Boston—based pop group Scruffy The Cat, playing electric banjo, mandolin, accordion, and organ-as well as writing songs. He recorded two albums-High-Octane Revival (a NY Times top release of 1986) and the highly regarded (and rare) Tiny Days—before leaving the band in 1987. During this time, he worked as a dishwasher and cook at the Hoodoo Barbeque, a notorious punk-rock hangout/crime scene in Kenmore Square.
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