Born: 02/13/1939   Chicago
Parents: Mortimer Sheehan, Nora Sheehan
Spouse: Dona Sheehan
Children: Michael Sheehan, Jr.
Address(es):
Permanent :
3736 Bay Bluffs Drive
Cedar , MI 49621
USA
Contact Information:
Phone : 231-228-5126
Email : [email protected]
Website : http://seniors.tcnet.org
Website : www.verbmall.blogspot.com

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	More Words to the Wise: A Lighthearted Look at the English Language - More questions from the radio show.	Non Fiction		Arbutus Press	2008
	On the Lamb in a Doggy Dog World - A 2nd compilation of questions and answers from the author's weekly call-in radio show about language, heard on WTCM AM580, Traverse City, MI.	Non Fiction		Arbutus Press	2006
	Words to the Wise: A Lighthearted Look at the English Language - A compilation of questions and answers from the author's weekly call-in radio show about language, heard on WTCM AM 580, Traverse City, MI	Non Fiction		Arbutus Press	2004
	Words! A Vocabulary Power Workbook	Non Fiction		Harcourt Brace	1996
	The Cry of the Jackal	Fiction		Avalon Books	1991
	Handbook for Basic Writers - Co-authored with Nancy Sheehan	Non Fiction		Prentice-Hall	1991
	Workbook for Basic Writers - Co-authored with Nancy Sheehan	Non Fiction		Prentice-Hall	1991
	In the Shadow of the Bear	Fiction		Avalon Books	1990
	The Word Parts Dictionary: Standard and Reverse Listings of Prefixes, Suffixes, Roots and Combining Forms	Non Fiction		McFarland & Co.

What is the aim or goal of your writing: The goal varies with the type of writing. In my novels, entertainment is primary; I'm trying to give the reader a gripping and moving story. In my composition textbooks, the aim was to provide a simplified but scrupulously accurate step-by-step guide to underprepared first-year college students. The vocabulary text and the dictionary were meant to provide a crash course in Latin and Greek word parts, the underpinnings of our word hoard. I strongly subscribe to Wittgenstein's observation that the limits of our language define the limits of our world.

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: Yes

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: Yes

Skills:
Author

MeLCat Links:
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Michael Sheehan retired from the City Colleges of Chicago in 1994 after teaching in the English Department at Olive-Harvey College for 26 years. He lives in Leelanau County, Michigan with his artist wife Dona. In his spare time he is a writer, and he does a weekly guest stint on Tuesday mornings from 9:00-10:00 on AM 580, WTCM. The show is called Words to the Wise, and it covers the joys and vicissitudes of the English language.

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