New title! The Time Mom Met Hitler, Frost Came to Dinner, and I Heard the Greatest Story Ever Told Memoir, Tyndale House Publishers, June 2015. I’m a literature guy—from Day One. In my new book, you’ll read about the literary crafting of my name by my poet father, Richard Eberhart. Dad was a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Bollingen Prize, and others. He served as United States Poet Laureate and for many years as New Hampshire Poet Laureate. Dad’s poetic voice gave me a rhythm, a rhyme, and enriched me with poetic references. My poet father molded me as I sought to know our Father. In my book, you’ll read stories of my encounters with famous poets, actors, folk singers—even a famous spy—and with the others who were drawn to Dad’s and Mom’s cordiality. I’m a God guy. I followed God—in the negative or in the positive—through early agnosticism, through many years of Reform Judaism, through a later flirtation with Orthodox Judaism, and then finally, in older age, into evangelical Baptist Christianity. Read about how Dad’s poetic soul made this pilgrimage easier and harder at the same time. I’ve had a few careers. Lots of writer day jobs—cab driver, gardener, baker, sales clerk, chef, teacher. Once, in Paris, I was a photo model—read the book. After earning a doctorate in religion and art, I did a stint as a seminary administrator. Then—the career job—I spent 28 years selling books and software to lawyers in Maine, New Hampshire, and northeastern Massachusetts, first for Shepards/McGraw-Hill, then for Loislaw, and finally for Thomson/West. As a young writer, I published novels, On the Verge and Paradise. Later, I published feature pieces and weekly restaurant reviews for Maine’s largest newspaper. I founded my own publishing company—Barquentine Books—and published two editions of a Maine dining guide, DB Eberhart’s Maine Menu Guide. Now retired from legal sales, I concentrate on writing. I am blessed by my family. I’m married to Channa Eberhart—we’ve passed 40 years—who is now a partially retired commercial real estate appraiser. We are grateful for our four children and for our son-in-law and three grandchildren. I’m a writing guy. Always have been. Can’t help it. Like it. Writing allows me to objectify my experience. Thus I can manage it, shape it, and communicate it back, either in non-fiction or fiction. When I do this well enough, it gives pleasure to my readers. Writing allows me, at least sometimes, to find the truth. Sometimes truth hides behind what is more easily seen. Explorers find what they expect to find, not necessarily what is there.